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A superb, continually-expanding site recording a long-term project
to record photographically all the megaliths in Ireland.
Fantastically good for counties Dublin, Wicklow, Waterford, Carlow, Wexford.
Andy Burnham's Megalithic Mysteries site
covering prehistoric sites in Britain...
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by courtesy of IrishMegaliths.org.uk
...and his interactive Megalithic Portal where
you can post messages
and update entries.
The Modern Antiquarian:
another excellent interactive site, comprehensive and very well designed.
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The
Megalithic European
selected pictures from the book by Julian Cope.
Shadows and Stone
superb professional photos of selected Irish megaliths.
Introductory
slideshow (no captions)
A comprehensive Guide to Irish Archæology on the Net.
Martin Byrne's SACRED ISLAND:
Selected megaliths in the West of Ireland.
A site devoted to the County Meath passage-tombs
and offering tourist information, interesting books and CD ROMs.
A selection of Irish megaliths nicely presented.
A good introduction to the 
Irish Sculptured Crosses.
a comprehensive
guide to
ROUND TOWERS
OF IRELAND
ANCIENT SKIES
Digitally-enhanced photos of megaliths in county Down.
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A site for those interested in the archæo-astronomy
of Passage-tombs.
A specialised OGAM site
with pictures of arbitrarily-selected ogam stones,
many of which are in museums.
IRISH
ANTIQUITIES
Mainly market-houses and tower-houses,
plus a few railway-stations and ogam-stones -
but some obscure megaliths, mainly in the North of Ireland,
are included in this basically-presented website
whose photographs are mostly of poor quality.
A comprehensive and excellent guide to
Manx Megaliths
and postage-stamps - with variable photos.
English Ancient Sites Directory.
Scottish (Pictish) Symbol Stones, etc., meticulously-researched,
pictures mostly monochrome.
Megalithix
Stone circles and cairns mainly in the North-East of Scotland.
Some splendid photos and VRs. This site is expanding southwards
and south-eastwards.
The Kilmartin Valley archæological website:
a superb guide to the many megaliths and petroglyphs
of this valley in Western Scotland.
Selected megaliths of Wales -
an informative site with slow-downloading bitmap pictures.
Megaliths of France, with GPS and other co-ordinates:
a very well-designed, ongoing website (with satellite maps)
moving ever-outwards from the Paris Basin.
NOTE: Belgian coverage is very poor;
do not use this site for Scottish or Irish megaliths!
TERRE
DE MÉGALITHES
A page of good photos of megaliths
mainly in the Centre-West of France.
Ken Williams'
Megaliths of Portugal
Megaliths of Portugal: more excellent photos.
A site with large pictures of the better-known Portuguese megaliths >>
Megalitos de Burgos:
Spanish web-pages with many sites in the Castilian province of Burgos,
good texts in Spanish only, and a good links (enlaces) page to
many other Iberian web-sites.
Megaliths of Menorca
in Germanic English.
Sardinian prehistoric tombs and
NURAGHI
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good photos and descriptions on an official Sardinian web-page.
Statue-Menhirs and Dolmens of Corsica:
excellent photos from Stonepages (below)...
Megalithic Sites in Britain, Ireland and France:
a hackneyed selection, not well-researched, but some good photos...
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...and fine photos of some more-unusual sites can
be seen on StonePages'
Ancient Scotland Tour: http://www.stonepages.com/tour/
Ancient Stones of Scotland:
http://www.stonepages.com/ancient_scotland/
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...and Stones of Apulia: http://www.stonepages.com/apulia/
- which makes an interesting comparison with the web-site below.
An excellent photographic record of little-known menhirs and
megaliths (and "micro-megaliths") near Lecce in Apulia
(SE Italy).
Megaliths of Malta: a huge site with many photographs.
THE DOLMEN PATH:
a marvellous Russian site revealing
the splendid and little-known tombs of the North-Western Caucasus.
Rock-paintings of Astuvansalmi, SE Finland: slow to download on dial-up.
Megaliths of the Netherlands:
a comprehensive guide with one photo for each monument.
Prehistoric tombs of Lower Saxony (Germany):
many photos of poor quality with brief texts in German
and Germanic English.
A few of the tens of thousands 
of dolmens in Korea.
A '"lucky dip" of assorted sites- some of them embarrassingly bad.
A Japanese archæo-astronomical site with very small pictures.
For
a non-illustrated complete catalogue
of sites in Northern Ireland and Britain
(somewhat spoiled by poor presentation, clumsy interface, mis-spelling
and bad punctuation),
go to: Archæology
Data Service
For Northern Irish sites it is essential
to know the name of the site's townland, unless it has a widely-popular
name, such as The Giant's Ring.
Choose Search by Resource at the top
of the page,and tick the box beside Northern
Ireland Sites and Monuments Record, half-way down the
list of resources.
Updates to this site are announced on the Gazetteer
Map Page >
If you wish to ask or tell
about any Irish megalith
simply e-mail me
or add your comment/question to my
