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class="content__text" A little slice of ‘hidden’ #Ireland 😮 Welcome to #GriananofAileach - a Neolithic hillfort finely plonked on the #InishowenPeninsula in #Donegal 🗻 Its origins date back to 1700 BC and it is linked to the mythical #TuathaDeDanann 🧝‍♀️ The fort was built and rebuilt over the years, with the more recent remnants of the walls from when the fort was used as the seat of the rulers of the ancient #KingdomofAileach 👑 Excavations on the site occurred throughout the 19th century when remnants of a Christian church, as well as an even earlier burial mound, were found 🔔 Over the course of the 1870s, a doctor from #Derry, Walter Bernard, painstakingly restored #GriananofAileach to its current, magnificent state. Tag someone that needs to join you here 💪 Footage by Lukassek licensed via Shutterstock #TheIrishRoadTrip

February 12, 2023