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Gallarus Oratory

Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry

A stone chapel built without mortar that has kept out the rain for centuries.

Gallarus Oratory is a small stone church shaped like an upturned boat, built of carefully fitted stones without any mortar. It is still dry inside after many centuries of Atlantic rain.

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When
Uncertain
Where
52.1700, -10.3500
Group
Unexplained

Visiting

A visitor centre and path lead to the oratory.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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