We run a daily tour, departing at 10am from Dingle town. Tours take up to 3.5 hours with a minimum of 4 people and a maximum of 12 people.
We will take you to the sites in our 16 seater bus, which due to any lingering Covid fears we are not filling to capacity.
The Dingle Peninsula has one of the greatest concertation’s of archaeological sites in Western Europe, stretching back over the past 7000 years. It is estimated that there are almost 2500 archaeological sites on this narrow rugged finger of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean.
We run a daily tour, departing at 10am from Dingle town. Tours take up to 3.5 hours with a minimum of 4 people and a maximum of 12 people.
Your guide Mícheál is a qualified Archaeologist with a post graduate degree from University College Galway. Mícheál worked for almost 20 years as Environmental Awareness Officer for Kerry.
We will take you to the sites in our 16 seater bus, which due to any lingering Covid fears we are not filling to capacity.
We bring you to interesting sites that are not overrun with sightseers. We also aim to spend as little time as possible in the bus and more time going through these wonderful sites in some detail.
On a typical tour we will visit at least 4 archaeological sites. These can include Medieval dry-stone bridge, a famine burial ground, aspects of medieval Dingle, Neolithic Rock Art, the earliest Irish alphabet written in stone (Ogham script), Sacred wells, Early Christian monastic sites, Drystone oratories, Ringforts, Beehive Huts and Medieval churches.
If you are staying within 2km of Dingle town we will collect you at your accommodation and drop you back at the end of the tour. Alternatively, we can meet by the dolphin statue, adjacent to the Tourist office on the seafront. There is adequate parking nearby.
‘Every archaeologist knows in their hearts why he digs. They dig in pity and humility that the dead may live again. That what is past may not be forever lost, that something may be salvaged from the erect of ages’
Geoffrey Bibby (The Testimony of the Spade)
Your guide Mícheál is a qualified Archaeologist with a post graduate degree from University College Galway. He has participated in excavations, surveys & watching briefs on a wide variety of sites along the wild Atlantic way from Kerry to Donegal. He has lectured in both Ireland and the US and has taught at all levels within Ireland. He has contributed to numerous documentaries on television and radio over the past 30 years.
He has written, produced and directed a television documentary for TG4 on the Rituals of Dying in Ireland from the Stone Age to modern times – Sileadh na mBunlaoí.
Mícheál worked for almost 20 years as Environmental Awareness Officer for Kerry.
“Monuments and Archaeological artifacts serve as testimonies of Mankind’s greatness and establish a dialogue between civilisations showing the extent to which beings are linked”
In his legendary guidebooks, Rick Steves gives a three star rating to Sciuird Archaelogical Tours – which classifies it as ‘a must see’.
