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2. Poulnabrone dolmen - Wikipedia

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   'Hole of the Quernstone' [2]) is a large dolmen (or cromlech, [3] a type of single-chamber portal tomb) 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 supporting a heavy horizontal capstone and dates to the early Neolithic period, with ...

3. The Burren - Wikipedia

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   The Burren (/ ˈ b ʌr ə n / BURR-ən; Irish: Boirinn, meaning 'rocky district') [1] is a karst/glaciokarst landscape centred in County Clare, on the west coast of Ireland. [2] It measures around 530 square kilometres (200 sq mi), within the circle made by the villages of Lisdoonvarna, Corofin, Gort and Kinvara. [3]

4. Irish megalithic tombs - Wikipedia

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   Poulnabrone dolmen is an example of a portal tomb in the west of Ireland. Megalithic monuments in Ireland typically represent one of several types of megalithic tombs: court cairns, passage tombs, portal tombs and wedge tombs. [1] [2] The remains of over 1,000 such megalithic tombs have been recorded around Ireland. [3]

5. List of megalithic monuments in Ireland - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of megalithic monument on the island of Ireland. Megalithic monuments are found throughout Ireland , and include burial sites (including passage tombs , portal tombs and wedge tombs (or dolmens) ) and ceremonial sites (such as stone circles and stone rows ).

6. List of World Heritage Sites in the Republic of Ireland

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   It represents the largest concentration of prehistoric megalithic art in Europe. [5] Sceilg Mhichíl: Kerry: 1996 757; iii, iv (cultural) The Celtic monastery, which is situated almost at the summit of a pyramidal rocky island, was probably founded in the 7th century. For 600 years, it was a centre of monastic life for Irish Christian monks ...

7. Prehistoric Ireland - Wikipedia

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   The two periods that have left the most spectacular groups of remains are the Neolithic, with its megalithic tombs, and the Bronze Age, which left among other things, gold jewellery from a time when Ireland was a major centre of gold mining. Ireland has many areas of bogland, and a great number of archaeological finds have been recovered from ...