Historic Wiltshire - The White Horses
and Wiltshire White Horses
will take you to links to all the British White Horses and to some non-British White Horses too.
Go to Earth Mysteries - The Uffington White Horse and Mysterious Britain - Uffington White Horse and Dragon Hill if you want to learn more about the Uffington White Horse.
Grianan of Aileach and
The McLaughlin Family History
Inishowen, County Donegal, Ireland, 379 A.D. - 1241 A.D. are links to information on the Grianan of Aileach, a great hill fort in Donegal.
An Analysis of Pre-Christian Ireland Using Mythology and A GIS. An interesting precis of a this project with glossary of Irish place names.
Mythical Ireland -- Metrical Dindshenchas and The Metrical Dindshenchas for Tara and Tailtiu. The Metrical Dindshenchas are a collection of verses which explain how various land marks of Ireland got their names. I have never been able to find the entire Dindshenchas on-line but here are two sites with excerpts from the Dindshenchas.
At Emain Macha there is a nice bird's eye view of the Hill of Macha, Armagh, Ireland.
http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/places/monuments/navan.shtml has several nice pictures of Emain Macha with commentary.
Emain Macha at BBC Timelines. Excellent photo and good article.
Sliabh na Caillí is also called the Loughcrew Passage Tomb Cemetery. Learn more about this remarkable hill here.
The most famous hill of Ireland is Tara. Learn more about the Hill of Tara at Mythical Ireland website.
At http://www.knowth.com/tara.htm
There is a good article and great links with pictures to more about the Hill of Tara.
Croghan Hill, Co. Offaly, Ireland. A charming and informative article on the Hill of the Forge.
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