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The Faddan More Psalter was spotted during mechanical peat cutting in a bog by a sharp-eyed machine operator in July 2006.
The festival of Beltaine (also known as Lá Bealtaine, Beltany, Bealltainn, Beltain, Beltaine, Boaltinn, Boaldyn, Belotenia and Gŵyl Galan Mai) celebrated on May Day the 1st of May marks the beginning of summer in the ancient Celtic calendar. A ceremonial site associated with Beltaine is the great stone circle at Beltany, Co. Donegal.
In 1892 a pair of House-shaped Shrines were hooked by a fisherman in Lough Erne.
The death and burial of St. Patrick.
A crannóg is an artificial or partly artificial island built in a lake.
The Corlea, Co. Longford trackway was the first Iron Age road ever found in Ireland.
Bally is the anglicised version of the Irish word baile.
The Irish annalists also recorded folklore and mythology, like mermaid tales, along with the more usual annual accounts.
In the Medieval period an annual Fair was held at Tailltin (now Teltown) Co. Meath on the Festival of Lugnasadh known as the Óenach Tailten, which was presided over by the King of Tara. 
Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne is situated in Baile an Fheirtéaraigh (Ballyferriter), 13 km (8 miles) west of Dingle, in the West Kerry Gaeltacht.
On Good Friday the 23 April 1014 the High King of Ireland Brian Bóruma defeated the Dublin Vikings and their allies at the battle of Clontarf but was killed in the battle.
One of the earliest surviving metalwork images of St. Patrick is on the cover of the Domhnach Airgid.
The Irish word dún refers to a fort or a King’s residence.
Saint’s relics were an important part of religious practice in medieval Ireland.
A common institution in medieval Ireland was fosterage.
The Bann Disc is one of the most outstanding pieces of metalwork surviving from the Irish Iron Age.
The pagan Festival of Imbolc honouring the goddess Brigit falls on the same day, 1 February, as the Feast of St. Brigit.