Poulnabrone dolmen is located in the Burren in County Clare and is one of the finest dolmens (single-chamber megalithic tomb) found in Ireland dating from the Neolithic period, approx built in 3200BC.
Poulnabrone means ‘The hole of the sorrows and consists of upright stones supporting a large capstone. How we see the Poulnabrone dolmen today would have been very different to how it looked during Neolithic times when it was covered in earth to form a barrow.
Excavations of the site during the 1980′s produced amazing evidence of ancients burials with the discovery of 21 people and animals buried under the dolmen. Other items found buried alongside the people consisted of a polished stone axe, a bone pendant, quartz crystals, weapons and pottery.
Poulnabrone means ‘The hole of the sorrows and consists of upright stones supporting a large capstone. How we see the Poulnabrone dolmen today would have been very different to how it looked during Neolithic times when it was covered in earth to form a barrow.
Excavations of the site during the 1980′s produced amazing evidence of ancients burials with the discovery of 21 people and animals buried under the dolmen. Other items found buried alongside the people consisted of a polished stone axe, a bone pendant, quartz crystals, weapons and pottery.
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