Welcome to this short tour of some of the more notable megalithic sites around Ireland. This is really just a taster of what Irelands stone and bronze age heritage has to offer, there are many more to be discovered in the categorised sections above. To visit a site, view more photos and find out a bit more, click on the link beside each photo. To continue on to the next page, use the links at the bottom of each page or the small numbered quick links just below this message. Enjoy!
Poulnabrone Dolmen, Co. Clare
Irelands most famous and photographed dolmen sits in the heart of the world-famous Burren landscape in County Clare. Thousands of years of farming and land clearing has caused the underlying limestone to become exposed and weathered into strange and moon-like crevice filled terraces. Poulnabrone Dolmen is made of limestone slabs typical of the many other Bronze Age wedge tombs in the locality. There are only two Dolmens in the Burren but this one is so spectacular that few more are required to make a trip here worthwhile.
This 5,000 year old tomb was excavated in 1985 and the bones of up to 33 people were found as well as the remains of a newborn baby place outside the entrance in the later Bronze Age.
Click here to go to Poulnabrone
Poulnabrone Dolmen, Co. Clare
Irelands most famous and photographed dolmen sits in the heart of the world-famous Burren landscape in County Clare. Thousands of years of farming and land clearing has caused the underlying limestone to become exposed and weathered into strange and moon-like crevice filled terraces. Poulnabrone Dolmen is made of limestone slabs typical of the many other Bronze Age wedge tombs in the locality. There are only two Dolmens in the Burren but this one is so spectacular that few more are required to make a trip here worthwhile.
This 5,000 year old tomb was excavated in 1985 and the bones of up to 33 people were found as well as the remains of a newborn baby place outside the entrance in the later Bronze Age.
Click here to go to Poulnabrone
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