659 Brú na Bóinne – Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne – 1993
The three main prehistoric sites of the Brú na Bóinne Complex, Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, are situated on the north bank of the River Boyne 50 km north of Dublin. This is europe's largest and most important concentration of prehistoric megalithic art. The monuments there had social, economic, religious and funerary functions.
757 Sceilg Mhichíl – 1996
is an outstanding, and in many respects unique, example of an early religious settlement deliberately sited on a pyramidal rock in the ocean, preserved because of a remarkable environment. It illustrates, as no other property can, the extremes of a Christian monasticism characterizing much of North africa, the Near East, and europe.
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