OPW Heritage Ireland places in County Sligo

Ireland's largest and oldest Neolithic cemetery, over thirty passage tombs and boulder circles around the Listoghil cairn near Sligo, open mid March to early December; adult €5, free for English Heritage members, car park.

The largest and finest court tomb in Ireland, a Neolithic cairn with an oval court and segmented chambers beside the N15 near Cliffoney, excavated by the Harvard mission in 1935; free, open-air, a quick stop from the car park beside it.

Sligo's only round tower and a complete high cross, the only one in Ireland showing the Virgin and Child, from St Columcille's monastery at Drumcliff below Ben Bulben, beside Yeats's grave; free, open-air.

The great Neolithic cairn said to be Queen Medb's grave on the 327-metre summit of Knocknarea above Strandhill, reached by the strenuous 6 km Queen Maeve Trail from the Glen Road car park; free, open-air, spectacular views.

Thirteenth-century Dominican priory in the heart of Sligo with a rare carved fifteenth-century high altar and cloister, open mid March to 30 December; adult €5, free for English Heritage members, council car park across the street.