Ancient Irish Fort Inis Mor

Dear Ireland,

There’s a place on Inis Mór where the ground simply ends. Dún Aonghasa, a semicircular stone fort older than the pyramids at Giza, sits right on the lip of a 100-metre cliff with the wild Atlantic thundering below — and on the seaward side, no wall at all. You lie on the warm limestone, edge forward on your elbows, and look straight down into 3,000 years of Ireland holding its breath.

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Take the 40-minute ferry from Rossaveel out to Inis Mór, cycle past the endless drystone walls, and you’ll arrive at one of the most astonishing places in all of Ireland: Dún Aonghasa. Nobody fully knows why Bronze Age islanders built a great fort here with its open side facing a sheer drop into the ocean — but standing on that cliff edge, you understand instantly why they never left the Aran Islands.

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