Wind sweeps across the stark limestone pavement of the Burren, carrying the silence of five thousand years to the feet of Poulnabrone Dolmen. This portal tomb stands against the grey Irish sky like a stone doorway to another world, its massive capstone balanced on slender uprights. The ancient builders placed these stones to mark the […]
The Poulnabrone Dolmen is one of Ireland’s most iconic prehistoric monuments, a 5,800-year-old Neolithic portal tomb consisting of three massive standing stones capped by a 1.8-metre-long capstone, rising starkly from the limestone pavement of the Burren in County Clare. Older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Giza, Poulnabrone is one of the most photographed archaeological […]