Céide Fields

Indulge yourself in a vast prehistoric landscape, a natural, wild ecology of blanket bog, dramatic cliffs and coastline along with the award winning Céide Fields Interpretive Centre.

Beneath these wild boglands in North Mayo lie a system of fields, dwelling areas and megalithic tombs which together make up the most extensive Stone Age monument in the world!

The discovery of the fields began in the 1930’s when a schoolteacher noticed piles of rocks which were uncovered as he cut away peat for fuel. The ensuing excavation of dwellings and tombs revealed the way of life of people living 200 generations earlier, a community of farmers who cleared large areas of forest for use as farmland.

The Céide fields are the oldest known field system in the world, at over 5 and a half millenia old! The bogland, with its unique ecology due to a combination of the warm Gulf Stream and cold, deep waters, include colourful mosses, lichens, heathers and flowers.

More information can be found at www.ceidefields.com or by calling +353 96 43325