If you enjoy visiting spectacular landscapes & seascapes and learning about the archaeology and culture of a people who have inhabited the Dingle Peninsula for 7000 years – then Sciuird Archaeology Tours were created for you.
Find out where the Irish came from and how they survived on this wild landscape for thousands of years
The Dingle Peninsula has one of the greatest concentrations of archaeological sites in Western Europe. It is estimated that there are almost 2500 archaeological sites on this narrow rugged finger of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Tours Run Daily. We run a daily tour, departing at 10am from Dingle town. Tours take up to 3 to 4 hours with a maximum of 12 people.
Your guide Mícheál is a qualified Archaeologist with a post graduate degree from University College Galway.
We bring you to a variety of interesting archaeological sites that are located along the Slea Head coastal route, west of Dingle town. We aim to spend as little time as possible in the bus and more time going through these wonderful sites in some detail. We also provide a commentary as we drive on the Irish language, Geology, Flora & Fauna etc.
On a typical tour we will visit at least 4 archaeological sites. These can include a Medieval dry-stone bridge, a famine burial ground, aspects of medieval Dingle, the earliest Irish alphabet written in stone (Ogham script), Sacred wells, Early Christian monastic sites, Drystone oratories, Ringforts, Beehive Huts and Medieval churches.
In his legendary guidebooks, Rick Steves gives a three star rating to Sciuird Archaelogical Tours – which classifies it as ‘a must see’.
