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Every place Strata has dug, assembled from its sources and filed by locality and era. A place is reviewed again whenever the ground beneath it is dug afresh.
528 places · 215 localities · last reviewed 27 October 2026
Ireland
TemplerobinTemplerobin takes in Spike Island in Cork Harbour, a 103-acre point of ground once held to be the site of Saint Mochuda's 7th-century monastery, later fortified, held by Norman lords and Irish gentry, used as a convict depot and prison, and reopened as a heritage site in 2004.
1 dig
14 records Ireland DublinDublin's ground carries siege, rebellion and civil war in close company: a royalist army turned back at its walls in 1649, a British admiral's pillar stood and fell on O'Connell Street, and a gaol on Inchicore Road held and shot the men who tried to remake it. 3 digs
39 records
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14 records Ireland DublinDublin's ground carries siege, rebellion and civil war in close company: a royalist army turned back at its walls in 1649, a British admiral's pillar stood and fell on O'Connell Street, and a gaol on Inchicore Road held and shot the men who tried to remake it. 3 digs
39 records
A former prison, now a museum
Kilmainham Gaol · 919–1924
The pillar Dublin argued about for 157 years
Spire of Dublin · 377 BC–2003
A siege, a civil war and a castle met on this corner
Castleview · 600–2016
Ireland
BandonA church tower three streets from you once turned news of an execution into a coronation.
1 dig14 records
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