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Megalithic Atlas, Book or maps?

My gf and I are going to Ireland in July 2024 for a month and will be driving a rental car. We love stone circles, holy wells, and basically any and all megalithic sites. We have been to Ireland before so have been fortunate to see many main sites already, but are ready for more! The general areas that we will be in are: 1-Dingle (I knnow the entire peninsula is nothiing but megalithic sites and will be spending a week there. From there we go to
2-Killybegs Donegal for a week, then to
3- Ballymote, Sligo for a few days
4-Westport, Mayo for a couple days
5-Portumna, Galway to explore the interior portion of that area of Ireland

I was wondering if there is an smallish atlas, book or even a map that might show what megalithic sites are in the area we are traveling in, with a small history or explaination of its significance.
I believe there is OSI maps that have those types of sites but the maps are SO big and if I have to use that to find the sites, then I will but it doesnt explain the significance, and I would have to buy several of these maps to. I'd prefer an atlas type book where I can flip thru to the areas we are exploring.
Thank you!

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I can’t think of any suitable map. I have copies of the Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland of a scale of 1:250,000 ( 1” to 4 miles) but they don’t mark megalithic sites.

I did find the following two maps on the web, which give an indication where to find sites but are no use to actually find them.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-Ireland-showing-Early-Neolithic-sitesfig5303908108

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/7d/3d/ab/7d3dab271f3b43be79317d68a1c1ba87--green-gem-ireland.jpg

Googling has identified this long out of date book “ Guide to National and Historic Monuments of Ireland” It is available (at a price!) on Amazon and also through World of Books which is a UK bookshop selling second hand books. I don’t know what it is like though or whether it is what you are after.

Failing that, Wiki has a list of possible sites. I also found this website that may be helpful. There is also this one.