Irelandscapes | Millin Bay Cairn, Megalithic Tomb - (N Irish Historical Short Documentary with Scenery) @Irelandscapes | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This remarkable little megalithic site is very easy to miss, signposted on the scenic route between Cloughy and Portaferry on the Ards Peninsula. When you walk up to and stand on the site itself, you begin to understand what this location may have meant to the comparatively small population who first occupied this area thousands of years ago. A visit will conjure thoughts of how these people imagined their world and how they went about daily life on this temperate, rocky shoreline.
The narration here is read from the excellent original public info text at Millin Bay Cairn, provided by the former Department Of The Environment. If you begin to visit local state managed historic monuments, you will notice how much attention to detail is employed by the archaeological teams at the Department Of Communities. They really are providing a thought-provoking education to visitors with text, illustrations and photographs, and it's likely to spark a long-term interest, visually placing each site into its respective period in time.