The Award Winning Visitors Centre in the Ceida Fields, A 5,000 years old Field System of Stone Walls, County Mayo, Ireland
The story behind the Ceida Fields began when Patrick Caulfield, a local school-master, visited his local bog near Ballycastle in County Mayo, Ireland to cut turf for the winter. As he wielded his turf spade, he came across linear piles of deliberately placed stones below the slow growing peat, he knew turf takes thousands of years to form, and realised it was part of an ancient man-made stone wall. Forty years later Patrick's son Seamus, an archaeologist, brought to light a field system of parallel, stone walls covering about four square miles. Carbon-dating revealed the fields to be some 5,000 years old, making the Neolithic field system, the oldest in the world. The interpretation centre appears to grow out of the bog to form a natural extension of the landscape
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Location: Céide Fields, Mayo, Ireland
Photo credit: © George Munday / Alamy / Afripics
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