Poulnabrone dolmen
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Poulnabrone dolmen is a large dolmen located in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. Situated on one of the region's most desolate and highest points, it comprises three standing portal stones supportin
The dolmen in 2006
View with karst limestone pavement in foreground
View from the south-side, with a portal stone at the right (east-facing side)
Another view of the dolmen
Cairn
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A cairn is a human-made pile of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Irish: carn.
Poulnabrone dolmen
…remains today is only the "stone skeleton" of the original monument; originally, it would have been covered with soil, and its flagstone capped by a cairn. When the site was excavated in 1986 and again in 1988, around 33 human remains, including those of adults and children (including the remains of a…
A cairn a mile east of Nine Standards Rigg in the Yorkshire Dales.
One of the cairns at Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery in Ireland, which covers a passage tomb.
A cairn of the Neolithic-era passage tomb on Gavrinis island, Brittany
The biggest cairn in Ireland, Maeve's Cairn on Knocknarea.