# mound (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover mound. Page: Feed: --- ## [Ardagh Ringfort](https://voicesfromthedawn.com/ardagh/) _2026-02-05 · Howard · Voices from the Dawn_ Many of the 40,000 ringforts remaining in Ireland are well preserved, and all are now protected under the National Monuments Act. The Ardagh Ringfort, however, was unprotected when it most of it was ploughed down in the mid-19th century. Today only two forlorn segments survive. Why then is this much-maligned fort’s name celebrated in Ireland and beyond? Found buried within it was the Ardagh… ## [The Hill of Ward (Tlachtga)](https://voicesfromthedawn.com/hill-of-ward/) _2026-01-25 · Howard · Voices from the Dawn_ Surveys and excavations show Tlachtga was no isolated fort on a farmed ridge but part of a dense ritual and political landscape: a node in a network of enclosures, routeways, graves, and assembly places where power was performed in earth and fire. For local farmers, the Samhain fire festival re‑anchors community identity in the deep time of their own fields. ## [Lissyviggeen Stone Circle](https://voicesfromthedawn.com/lissyviggeen/) _2026-01-21 · Howard · Voices from the Dawn_ A few kilometers east of Killarney the tourist bustle falls away into quiet pasture and low fields. A ring of weather‑darkened stones rises from the grass, backed by a ragged earthen bank. This compact prehistoric monument has inspired stories of druids, dancing children and goddesses for generations. ## [Fionn mac Cumhaill’s Fingers(Shantemon Stone Alignment)](https://voicesfromthedawn.com/shantemon/) _2025-12-27 · Howard · Voices from the Dawn_ Standing beside the Bronze Age stone row today, it is easy to imagine those later ceremonies unfolding in its shadow—the continuity of assembly on the same height over at least two millennia. The prehistoric alignment, long divorced from its original purpose, would still have lent a kind of ancestral gravity to the gathering, a visible token that this was a place where important decisions had… ## [Seefin Passage Tomb](https://voicesfromthedawn.com/seefin/) _2025-12-25 · Howard · Voices from the Dawn_ High on a windswept summit in the Wicklow Mountains, where the tufts of bog cotton bend under the Atlantic gusts, a dome of stone breaks the skyline. This is the Seefin Passage Tomb—Suí Fhinn, “Fionn’s Seat”—a 5,000‑year‑old monument that presents somewhat of an archaeological enigma. ## [Protected: Knowth](https://voicesfromthedawn.com/knowth/) _2025-12-24 · Howard · Voices from the Dawn_ There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. ## [Protected: Deerpark Court Tomb and Cashel](https://voicesfromthedawn.com/deerpark/) _2025-12-23 · Howard · Voices from the Dawn_ There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. ## [Dún Dealgan (Cúchulainn’s Castle)](https://voicesfromthedawn.com/dundealgan/) _2024-12-20 · Howard · Voices from the Dawn_ Perched on a commanding ridge overlooking the Castletown River, Dún Dealgan represents one of the most strategically significant sites in Irish history.