
Clontygora Court Tomb, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland


Entrance to the gallery of Clontygora Court Tomb




Underexposed – an Irish Photoblog

Clontygora Court Tomb, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland


Entrance to the gallery of Clontygora Court Tomb




Poulnabrone Dolmen a portal tomb in the Burren, Co Clare, Ireland




Slemish Mountain, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland where Saint Patrick was enslaved as a shepherd for about six years (according to legend).

Slemish pilgrimage path – on Saint Patrick’s Day (17th March) people climb to the top of the mountain as a pilgrimage.

Fishing boat at Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland

Garron Point, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland. Kodak HIE infrared film

Fore Benadictine Priory Ruin

Benadictine Priory ruin at Fore monastic settlement, Co Westmeath, Ireland

St Finchin’s Church at Fore monastic settlement

St Finchin’s Church

Anchorite Tower and Church

Anchorite Tower and Church

St Finchin’s Church – holy font

Turlough Round Tower, Co. Mayo, Ireland


Legananny Dolmen, Co Down, Northern Ireland


Legananny Standing Stone, Co Down, Northern Ireland. The pillar features an inscribed cross

The other side of Legananny Cross Inscribed Standing Stone

Legananny Standing Stone to the right of the split hawthorn tree

Ross Castle, Co. Kerry, Ireland


Dromiskin Round Tower, High Cross and church ruin, Co. Louth, Ireland

Dromiskin Round Tower

Dromiskin Round Tower and 10C High Cross

Dromiskin graveyard headstone – carved crucifixion figure

Wateresk Dolmen (Slidderyford Dolmen). Co Down, Northern Ireland

Wateresk Dolmen (Slidderyford Dolmen) with the mountains of Mourne in the background


Drumena Stone Fort or Dun, Co Down, Northern Ireland


One of two entrances of the T-shaped souterrain inside Drumena cashel

Goward Dolmen, Co Down, Northern Ireland


Goward Dolmen has a huge cap stone said to weigh 50 ton

Goward Dolmen known locally as Pat Kearney’s Big Stone after a local who lived in a cottage behind the dolmen

A sheep in the Glenaan valley, Glens of Antrim, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

Creevelea Abbey, Co. Leitrim, Ireland




Detail: small shrine at Creevelea Abbey with some offerings

Detail: small carved wooden cross at Creevelea Abbey

Ballintoy harbour, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland

The ruin of Newtownstewart Castle, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Mass Altar, Mellon’s Glen, Killeter, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Stone cross at the Mass Altar in Mellon’s Glen


The steps at Magherakeel graveyard near the ruins of St. Caireall’s Church

Celtic Cross Headstones at Magherakeel Graveyard

Magherakeel graveyard, Killeter, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland

The two towers of Harry Avery’s Castle, Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Named after (Henry Aimbreidh) O’Neill but built around 1320 by another member of the O’Neill clan

Dunnaman Court Tomb aka Massford Court Tomb, Co Down, Northern Ireland

The gallery of Dunnaman Court Tomb is all that remains


Kilkeel Dolmen aka The Crawtree Stone, Co Down, Northern Ireland

Kilfeaghan Dolmen, Co Down, Northern Ireland

The enchanted path that leads to Ballynoe Stone Circle in County Down

Ballynoe Stone Circle was built around 4000 years ago. The circle encloses a burial mound

Detail of one of the stones that lie outside the circle

Arc of stones at Ballynoe Stone Circle. The circle is around 35mts across

Detail of stones

The Giant’s Ring at Ballynahatty showing the passage grave near its centre. Ballynahatty, Belfast, Co Down, Northern Ireland



The henge monument at Ballynahatty (the Giant’s Ring) – is roughly 180m across with a neolithic passage grave near the centre.

Bunbeg Shipwreck, Co Donegal, Ireland

Dead Tree, Renvyle peninsula, Co Galway, Ireland

Giant’s Causeway, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland. Kodak HIE infrared film

Aird Snout – Giant’s Causeway. Kodak HIE infrared film


Causeway Coast in shades of grey

Causeway Coast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland
Drumcliff: Round Tower, High Cross, St Columba’s church and WB Yeats grave

Drumcliff Round Tower, Co. Sligo, Ireland (10th-century)

There is a megalithic tomb a short distance from the round tower across the Drumcliff River called Coolbeg Wedge Tomb


East face of the 9th-10th-century high cross

West face of the 9th-10th-century high cross at Drumcliff

St Columba’s, Drumcliff – burial place of WB Yeats

Doors of St Columba’s Church emblazoned with bronze swans

The grave of WB Yeats at Drumcliff

The grave of William Butler Yeats with Benbulben Mountain in the background

Bronze and stone sculpture featuring the words of WB Yeats by sculptor Jackie McKenna.
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W B Yeats
Near the graveyard at St Columba’s, Drumcliff, Sligo, Ireland, the burial place of Yeats.

Hill of Slane, Slane, Co. Meath, Ireland


The ruins of the Franciscan Friary and College

The ruins of St Patrick’s Church

The Chilean pine tree in the graveyard



Two rough stone slabs thought to be the remains of St Erc’s tomb. Patrick appointed Erc as the first Bishop of Slane

Meelick Round Tower, Co Mayo, Ireland


The Round Tower at Monasterboice, Co Louth, Ireland

The Tall Cross or West Cross – The east face

The Tall Cross or West Cross – The west face

Muiredach’s High Cross – The east face and round tower

Muiredach’s High Cross – The east face

The North Cross – The east face with round tower

The North Cross – The east face and sundial

The North Cross – The west face

Duncarbit Standing Stones – strange symmetry

Duncarbit Standing Stones, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland




Proleek Dolmen, Cooley Peninsula, Co Louth, Ireland




Loughmacrory Wedge Tomb, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland



Uragh Stone Circle, Beara Peninsula, Co Kerry, Ireland



Clogher Head Standing Stone<
Clogher Head, Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry, Ireland

Gurranes Stone Row / Alignment aka The Three Fingers, Co Cork, Ireland


