Sacred place · Medieval
Moor Abbey
County Tipperary
A Franciscan community returned here again and again after dissolution, burning and murder: until a dispute with a bishop's deputy, not the Crown,…
- Near Kilmallock
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Moor End Castle
Northamptonshire
Moor End Castle is a vanished royal residence whose altered moat and wooded island preserve the clearest trace of its fourteenth-century power and…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Moorstown Castle
County Tipperary
A circular tower house: a shape almost never used in Ireland, where nearly every other tower is built square.
- Near Thurles
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Mor Stein
Orkney Islands
An isolated three-metre standing stone whose uncarved bulk records the considerable communal labour of quarrying, moving and raising a monument who…
- Near Shapinsay
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Moreton Corbet Castle
Shropshire
Moreton Corbet preserves a rare physical conversation between a medieval stronghold and an Elizabethan manor: Corbet builders filled the old bailey…
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Morgan's Hill Enclosure
Wiltshire
A near-perfect square of bank and ditch on open downland, one of a family of prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) farming en…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Morganstown Castle Mound
Cardiff
One of a trio of Norman motte (the great earth mound at the heart of an early castle) castles raised across the ridges of north Cardiff, its earthw…
- Near Morganstown
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Morgraig Castle
Caerphilly
A castle built almost to completion on a contested Welsh-English border, then apparently walked away from before a single roof went on: and histori…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Morlais Castle
Merthyr Tydfil
Morlais Castle preserves the remains of an unfinished thirteenth-century stronghold whose construction triggered a baronial war and royal intervent…
- Near Merthyr Tydfil
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Morpeth Castle
Northumberland
Morpeth’s altered gatehouse preserves a castle whose unlikely story runs from Margaret Tudor’s refuge to a 1644 siege held against five-to-one odds.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Morris Castle
Swansea
Not a castle. A block of twenty-four workers' flats built between 1768 and 1775: one of the earliest tenement buildings anywhere.
- Near Treboeth
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mortimer's Castle
County Westmeath
A ruined Anglo-Norman stronghold whose very name is disputed between two Earls of March: and whose cellar is said to still hide a fortune in gold.
- Near Athlone
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Morton Castle
Dumfries and Galloway
Morton combines a fortified Nith Valley promontory with the comforts of a later hunting lodge, now dramatically isolated by an eighteenth-century a…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Morville Priory
Shropshire
Morville Priory was Shrewsbury Abbey’s tiny Benedictine cell and diocesan guest house, preserving how a major monastery administered parish revenue…
- Near Morville
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Mote of Mark
Dumfries and Galloway
The Mote of Mark was a high-status sixth- and seventh-century fortified workshop in Rheged, with imported goods and evidence for skilled metalworking.
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Sacred place · Medieval
Mothel Abbey
County Waterford
A monastery re-founded in the 1140s grew into one of the Augustinian order's major landholders in central Waterford, yet all that survives is a sin…
- Near Carrick-on-Suir
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Motte of Urr
Dumfries and Galloway
The Motte of Urr preserves the earthwork (earth moved and shaped into banks and ditches rather than built up in stone) of a twelfth-century baronia…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Mottisfont Abbey
Hampshire
A medieval monastery survives inside the walls of a country house, its church still standing as the mansion's core beneath a name its Georgian owne…
- Near Winchester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Moulton Castle
Lincolnshire
Moulton Castle is a scheduled medieval earthwork (banks and ditches raised from the earth rather than quarried stone) whose D-shaped moat preserves…
- Near Moulton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mounsey Castle
Somerset
A triangular bank and ditch of the pre-Roman centuries, north-west of Dulverton.
- Near Dulverton
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mount Caburn
East Sussex
Mount Caburn is a repeatedly excavated enclosure above Lewes, dating from the centuries before Rome arrived, where structured deposits challenge th…
- Near Lewes
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Mount Grace Priory
North Yorkshire
Mount Grace is England’s best-preserved accessible Carthusian site, revealing hermit-style monastic life, Yorkist and Lancastrian patronage, major…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Mount Pleasant henge
Dorset
Mount Pleasant henge, a bank-and-ditch enclosure around a circular space, is a major late Stone Age Dorset monument whose vast earthwork, a bank-an…
- Near Dorchester
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mount Venus
County Dublin
A capstone weighing some 44 tons has slipped from its portal stones and now leans at an angle, described by one antiquarian (an early collector-sch…
- Near Edmondstown
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mow Cop Castle
Cheshire
Mow Cop Castle is a 1754 mock ruin on a remarkable boundary ridge, layered with quarrying, Methodist and literary history.
- Near Mow Cop
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mowsbury Hill
Bedfordshire
A hillfort: a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks and ditches: was later refounded as a moated medieval manor. Its earthworks are…
- Near Bedford
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Moy Castle
Argyll and Bute
Its walls still stand almost to the parapet, with a working well surviving on the ground floor and a Powell and Pressburger film crew's footprints…
- Near Lochbuie
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Moycarkey Castle
County Tipperary
A double murder-hole still guards the entrance passage: a rare doubled defence for a tower-house whose owners, the Cantwells, married into the Butl…
- Near Thurles
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Moyne Abbey
County Mayo
One of Connacht's most complete Franciscan friaries, its cloister (the covered walkway round a monastery's central courtyard) arcade and traceried…
- Near Ballina
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Much Marcle Castle
Herefordshire
A near-vanished stronghold of the Mortimers survives only as earthworks: its very stones were carried off to rebuild the parish church beside it.
- Near Much Marcle
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Muchelney Abbey
Somerset
An abbey that paid its Domesday tax in six thousand eels a year: and whose thatched monks' lavatory is considered unique in Britain.
- Near Muchelney
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Sacred place · Medieval
Muckross Abbey
County Kerry
In the central cloistered courtyard of Muckross Abbey stands a large yew tree, its trunk rising through an open square of arched walkways that loca…
- Near Killarney
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Muiryfold
Moray
A Roman marching camp of over 41 hectares, hidden until aerial photography found its ditches from the air in 1959: physical proof that Severus's le…
- Near Keith
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mulfra Quoit
Cornwall
Mulfra Quoit is a Neolithic (the first farming period in Britain, roughly 4000–2500 BC) chamber tomb on Mulfra Hill whose slipped five-ton capstone…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mulgrave Castle
North Yorkshire
Three successive castles on one ridge trace nine centuries of the same family line, from a Norman baron's stronghold to a duchess's country mansion.
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mullyash Kerbed Cairn
County Monaghan
A Neolithic hilltop cairn: a mound of piled stones, often covering a burial, from the first farming age roughly 4000–2500 BC: whose summit once com…
- Near Monaghan
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Roman
Mumrills
Falkirk
Mumrills was the largest Roman fort on the Antonine Wall, with excavated defences and a rich group of altars, funerary evidence and everyday finds…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Muncaster Castle
Cumbria
A Venetian glass bowl said to have been given by a fugitive king in 1464 is held to bind the Pennington family's fortunes to Muncaster for as long…
- Near $2
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Muness Castle
Shetland Islands
The most northerly fortified house in the British Isles: burnt by privateers in 1627 after less than thirty years of use, and its top floor later b…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Mungret Abbey
County Limerick
Three roofless medieval churches still stand together on one site, the rare physical trace of a monastery once reputed to hold six churches and 1,5…
- Near Limerick
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Muntham Court Romano-British site
West Sussex
A protected archaeological site at Findon, with settlement from before and during Roman rule.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Murrisk Abbey
County Mayo
Local tradition ties the ruins to a church founded by Saint Patrick himself, and the surviving 1457 grant names the family who turned that legend i…
- Near Westport
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Musbury Castle
Devon
Musbury Castle is a recorded hillfort, a hilltop site enclosed by ramparts of earth from the Iron Age, the centuries before the Roman conquest, abo…
- Near Musbury
- Some walking
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Must Farm
Cambridgeshire
A Bronze Age village that burned, collapsed into a river and was sealed in oxygen-starved silt: preserving whole roof timbers, textiles and meals i…
- Near Peterborough
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Mutiny Stones
Scottish Borders
A Neolithic long cairn named after a devil's mittenful of stones: and reduced to less than half its remembered height by shepherds building walls.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mynydd Carningli
Pembrokeshire
A 347-metre mountain in the Preselis above Newport, its summit carrying remains from before the written record.
- Near Newport
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Mynydd Illtud
Powys
A plateau carrying an Iron Age fort, a Roman road, Georgian rabbit warrens: and peat holding ten thousand years of climate history.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Nantcribba Castle
Powys
A castle on a natural outcrop of igneous rock, identified with the Gwyddgrug of medieval documents and taken by a Welsh prince in 1263.
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Nantwich Castle
Cheshire
Not a stone survives above ground, yet the castle's ghost still shapes Nantwich: the curve of the modern High Street is believed to trace its outer…
- Near Nantwich
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Fortified place · Medieval
Narberth Castle
Pembrokeshire
A ruined Norman fortress, a castle here recorded as attacked and destroyed by Gruffydd ap Rhys.
- Near Narberth
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Navio Roman Fort
Derbyshire
A gritstone altar and Centurial stone recovered from Navio identify the garrison’s religious practice and the officials who rebuilt the fort in 154…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Naworth Castle
Cumbria
A working border stronghold whose Great Hall carries the largest fireplace of its kind in the north of England, later reshaped by the Pre-Raphaelit…
- Near $2
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Sacred place · Medieval
Neath Abbey
Neath Port Talbot
Neath Abbey was once Wales’s largest abbey and a rare site where medieval monastic ruins were later engulfed by copper and iron industry, then unco…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Neath Castle
Neath Port Talbot
Neath Castle charts the transfer of a Norman lordship across the river, repeated conflict with Welsh and English opponents, and the survival of a m…
- Near Neath
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Nebstone
West Yorkshire
A rock shaped like the lid of a grand piano, a few hundred yards west of the Swastika Stone on the northern edge of Ilkley Moor.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Necarne
Fermanagh
Necarne traces the evolution of a seventeenth-century planter castle into a Victorian Gothic house and, most recently, a long-running public equine…
- Near Enniskillen
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Fortified place · Medieval
Neidpath Castle
Scottish Borders
A single L-plan tower rebuilt almost nowhere else in its 750-year life, whose carved archway still names both families that shaped it: the Hays' go…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Nelson Rooms, Monmouth
Monmouthshire
The Nelson Rooms records Lady Llangattock’s philanthropy in Monmouth: first a working-men’s gymnasium, then the home of her renowned Nelson collect…
- Near Monmouth
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Ness of Brodgar
Orkney Islands
Ness of Brodgar preserves an archaeological site between the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness.
- Near Stenness
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Ness of Burgi fort
Shetland Islands
A narrow finger of land reaches south from Scat Ness into the sea at the southern extremity of Shetland Mainland, and near its end, on a rocky spur…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Nether Hall, Roydon
Essex
Nether Hall preserves a rare fifteenth-century Essex manorial complex, where a Grade I ruined gatehouse and listed farm buildings record the Colte…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie Mid Cairn
Argyll and Bute
Two burial cists inside still carry carved cup marks and a rare axehead symbol, evidence that survived even after most of the cairn (a mound of pil…
- Near Kilmartin
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Nether Largie North Cairn
Argyll and Bute
The mound standing here today is not undisturbed ancient masonry: it is a 1930 reconstruction, a fact that changes what a visitor is actually looki…
- Near Kilmartin
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Netley Abbey
Hampshire
A house that was never rich and never famous for scholarship still left behind the most complete Cistercian monastery standing in southern England,…
- Near Winchester
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
New Ditch
Somerset
An earthwork that might be Iron Age defence or a medieval park boundary: and the evidence supports both readings equally.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
New Romney Priory
Kent
New Romney Priory preserves the remains of a likely monastic grange linked to Pontigny Abbey in France, recording the impact of Anglo-French war on…
- Near New Romney
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Fortified place · Medieval
New Slains Castle
Aberdeenshire
Seat of the Hay Earls of Erroll for over three centuries, its ruined halls hosted Jacobite plots, Samuel Johnson's uneasy night, and the octagonal…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Newark Castle controlled the River Trent and Fosse Way junction, a bishop’s stronghold whose Civil War slighting still shapes its riverside ruin.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newark Castle, Port Glasgow
Inverclyde
Newark exposes the transformation of a defensive Maxwell tower into a Renaissance mansion, then into the harbour-side landmark around which Port Gl…
- Near Port Glasgow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newark Friary
Nottinghamshire
Newark Friary preserves the town’s short-lived Observant Franciscan foundation, later absorbed into a changing commercial streetscape after Henry V…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newark Priory
Surrey
A roofless Augustinian religious house stands on its own island in the River Wey. Its rents once ran from London to Winchester before its closure i…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newbattle Abbey
Midlothian
Newbattle Abbey links Cistercian settlement, early Scottish coal extraction, repeated Anglo-Scottish conflict, Reformation (the break with Rome tha…
- Near Dalkeith
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newbo Abbey
Lincolnshire
Its founder was the ringleader behind one of medieval England's deadliest anti-Jewish massacres: a stain on the abbey (a monastic house under the r…
- Near Sedgebrook
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newburgh Priory
North Yorkshire
Newburgh Priory connects a twelfth-century Augustinian foundation to Tudor conversion, Fauconberg and Wombwell family history, and a long-lived est…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newbury Castle
Berkshire
The castle stamped proudly on Newbury's coat of arms never stood in the town at all: its true remains are three earthen mottes hidden four miles aw…
- Near Hamstead Marshall
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newcastle Castle, Bridgend
Bridgend
Within little more than a century its ownership passed from Norman knights to a Welsh rebel leader to a king's own wife: a small hilltop stronghold…
- Near Bridgend
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newcastle Emlyn Castle
Carmarthenshire
One of the few stone castles in west Wales raised by a Welsh lord rather than an English one, and the place where a prince's revolt against the cro…
- Near Newcastle Emlyn
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newcastle town wall
Tyne and Wear
A medieval defensive wall raised in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to protect the town from attack.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Newcastle-under-Lyme Castle
Staffordshire
A cholera inspection in the nineteenth century found the castle moat full of sewage. It was drained, and an iron foundry cut back the mound.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newenham Abbey
Devon
Newenham Abbey was a Cistercian house at Axminster whose foundation, Black Death losses, Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in th…
- Near Axminster
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Newgrange
County Meath
Raised five hundred years before Stonehenge took its familiar form, its inner chamber still catches the exact solstice sunrise its Neolithic (the f…
- Near Drogheda
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Moridunum (Carmarthen)
Carmarthenshire
East of the old town of Carmarthen stand the earthwork (earth moved and shaped into banks and ditches rather than built up in stone) remains of a R…
- Near Carmarthen
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Moss Farm Road Stone Circle
North Ayrshire
Moss Farm Road preserves a damaged Bronze Age: the period from about 2500 to 800 BC: stone-mound-and-circle monument within Arran’s wider Machrie M…
- Near Machrie
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Mount Melleray Abbey
County Waterford
Mount Melleray was Ireland's leading modern Trappist foundation: a refuge born from revolution that founded communities across the English-speaking…
- Near Cappoquin
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Mount Sandel Fort
County Londonderry
Mount Sandel Fort places an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) stronghold and John de Courcy’s medieval residence besi…
- Near Coleraine
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Mount Sandel Mesolithic site
County Londonderry
Mount Sandel is one of Ireland’s oldest archaeological sites and preserves the country’s only confirmed Mesolithic (the middle Stone Age, roughly 9…
- Near Coleraine
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Fortified place · Medieval
Mountjoy Castle
County Tyrone
Mountjoy Castle is a protected Tyrone fortification overlooking Lough Neagh, remembered for its capture during the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
- Near Omagh
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Sacred place · Medieval
Movilla Abbey
Down
Movilla connects early Irish scholarship, Viking disruption and Augustinian renewal: its late-medieval ruins mark a monastery once taught by St Fin…
- Near Newtownards
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Moyadam
County Antrim
Moyadam joins a medievally attested place-name, Maigh Doinn or “Donn’s plain”, with a surviving standing stone from before written records reached…
- Near Antrim
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Fortified place · Medieval
Moyry Castle
County Armagh
Moyry Castle is a compact 1601 pass fort built during the Nine Years’ War, preserving a strategic route through the Gap of the North.
- Near Jonesborough
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Mucking (archaeological site)
Essex
Mucking is Britain’s largest excavation, exposing 3,000 years of settlement and one of the earliest, most extensive Anglo-Saxon communities and cem…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Muntober
County Tyrone
Muntober pairs a substantial Tyrone townland with the protected Black Fort rath (an early-medieval Irish farmstead ringed by an earth bank) and a r…
- Near Omagh
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Myrtlebury
Devon
Myrtlebury preserves an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) hillside enclosure above the East Lyn valley, making prehistoric (before…
- Near Exeter
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Narrow Water Castle
County Down
Narrow Water Castle preserves a sixteenth-century tower house at the mouth of the Newry River, built on the site of a Norman keep.
- Near Newry
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Sacred place · Iron Age
Navan Fort
Armagh
Navan Fort is one of Ireland's great prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived in these islands) ceremonial monuments, where a huge Iron Age…
- Near Armagh
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
Nendrum Monastery mill
County Down
Nendrum’s tide-mill remains are the earliest excavated of their kind, showing early medieval (roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Norma…
- Near Comber
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Sacred place · Medieval
New Minster, Winchester
Hampshire
Winchester’s New Minster was a royal Benedictine abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) and pilgrimage centre that safeguarded the burials and reli…
- Near Winchester
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Newberry Castle
Devon
Newberry Castle turns a misleading name into a lesson: low earthworks rather than masonry preserve an unexcavated enclosure from the centuries befo…
- Near Exeter
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Newenden Bridge
Kent
Newenden Bridge is a largely intact 1706 Kent–Sussex joint project whose sandstone arches and original timbers preserve an early-modern River Rothe…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Newgrange cursus
County Meath
A short banked monument from the later Stone Age east of Newgrange preserves the ordered movement of ceremony: two banks framing a route towards th…
- Near Drogheda
- Some walking
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