The best-known megaliths in Ireland
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
The Boyne valley is the headline: Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth are 7 to 10 km from Drogheda. Sligo has Carrowmore 1, 4 and 5 and the Cummeen Court Tomb 4 km from town. Gaulstown Portal Tomb is 9 km from Waterford. Poulnabrone Dolmen is 25 km from Ennis in the Burren, the Proleek Dolmen is 6 km from Dundalk, and the Punchestown Longstone and the Piper's Stones are reached from Naas.
The count is 189 named dolmens, passage tombs, wedge tombs, court tombs and stone circles RLQuest knows in Ireland, 56 of them with a Wikipedia article. Ireland's 749 castles and 503 ruins have their own pages. A quest to a dolmen is checked from your recorded route in the app, and the fields you crossed to get there become part of your own map.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 137 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
