Hand-drawn on vellum in 1468, the map was made at a time when Ireland was at the edge of the known western world – and travel to this country would have been the 15th-century equivalent of a ...

The Grianan of Aileach, which translates to the Sun Temple of Aileach, is one of Ireland's most impressive ... one of the Irish sites marked on Ptolemy’s map of the world, which was produced ...