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Photo Pages: Poulnabrone - Portal Tomb in Ireland (Southern) in Co. Clare
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Submitted by Anthony_Weir on Sunday, 13 October 2002 Page Views: 7724
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 Site Name: Poulnabrone Country: Ireland (Southern) County: Co. Clare Type: Portal Tomb
Townland (Nearest Village): Ballyvaughan
Map Ref: M236003
Discovery Map Number: D51
Latitude: 53.048194N Longitude: 9.139952W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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Portal Tomb in Co. Clare
Next to the carved stones at Newgrange, this is the most-photographed megalith in Ireland. It is a fine tomb set on the limestone pavement to the E of the road from Killinaboy to Ballyvaughan, in the centre of a low round cairn. The entrance faces N and is marked by a low sill-stone. The thin roofslab,lifted to a height of 1.8 metres by imposing slab-like portal-stones, is tilted at the usual portal-tomb angle.
~ 1 km NNE is Cahercashlaun cliff-fort, a roughly-oval ‘cashel’ containing a souterrain, and an outer defensive wall on the NE side. The entrance is a natural cleft in the limestone, and was originally roofed with slabs.
~ 1.6 km NNW is a wedge-tomb in Gleninsheen – a small, box-like tomb resembling a stone kist whose E end is now open. Remains of two other wedge-tombs stand nearby.
Note: Photo © Anthony Weir
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 Poulnabrone submitted by DrewParsons
Poulnabrone is situated on The Burren, an area of around 250 square kilometres of karst type limestone scenery containing more than 90 megaliths. Photographed during a visit in January 1997.
 Poulnabrone submitted by AngieLake
Looking approx from SW towards NE at Poulnabrone dolmen. 1999.
 Poulnabrone submitted by AngieLake
Here you can see the extent of the limestone pavement and the many attempts at making 'mini-dolmens' by visitors in 1999.
(Poulnabrone dolmen is left of centre here! [below the farmhouse] - with Tony [half of the couple I travelled with that year] standing near it.)
Parking used to be at the roadside: see the white cars middle right, and follow along, past the tree, towards their left.
 Poulnabrone submitted by AngieLake
Poulnabrone dolmen in summer 1999. This would be the north eastern corner, looking to SW.
 Poulnabrone submitted by AngieLake
The eastern side of Poulnabrone dolmen on The Burren. (1999)
 Poulnabrone submitted by AngieLake
Photo taken in 1999, showing the relative height of the dolmen compared to Angie (5'4").
When visiting in 2001 and dowsing the site, I took compass reading that showed this entrance faced towards NNE.
 Poulnabrone submitted by KenWilliams
By the light of the near-full moon, Thursday 2/11/06.
 Poulnabrone submitted by KenWilliams
Limestone pavement and tomb under an ominous sky.
 Poulnabrone submitted by KenWilliams
That wonderful moment when the sun comes out after a heavy downpour. If you stand in the rain long enough...
 Poulnabrone submitted by KenWilliams
The cracks and grykes surrounding the tomb can form very unusual and interesting shapes
 Poulnabrone submitted by KenWilliams
The sun breaks the heavy cloud bank for a few seconds, late evening 9/3/06. I usually avoid large burned out areas on a photo but the ones where this was more controlled didn't have as much atmosphere.
The broken stone in front of the tomb is actually the original east portal stone (which was removed due to deterioration during excavations and replaced).
 Poulnabrone submitted by TysonM
The sun popped out just in time for the last exposure at wonderful Poulnabrone. This image wouldn't have worked as well with my B&W film. Good thing I brought color film along with me, eh..
 Poulnabrone submitted by TysonM
Poulnabrone is a spectacular portal tomb. It is surrounded by a beautifully desolate landscape, which makes a splendid backdrop for this powerful megalithic sight.
 Poulnabrone submitted by kenwilliams
The sun peeks above the horizon, just before 8am 7th November 2005.
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Re: Poulnabrone (Score: 1)
by Cloghmore on Tuesday, 27 August 2002
(User Info | Send a Message) | | The area around the dolmen has been recently acquired by Duchas (The Heritage Service). Previously there had been many small modern replicas surrounding the monument but these have now been cleared. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Poulnabrone (Score: 1)
by enkidu41 on Wednesday, 26 May 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Whilst this is an imposing tomb, for me it, and the whole area around it, is soulless. The Duchas seem to have no clue whatsoever about how to present and preserve their antiquities (they could even learn something from English Heritage which just shows you how bad they really are!). There is considerably more ambience at Glenlisheen 2 km up the road which is set in the same sort of limestone pavement area but which is by no means as imposing. For me the ambience rating of Poulnabrone is 1. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Poulnabrone (Score: 1)
by KenWilliams on Monday, 07 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Poulnabrone may be another victim of the 'pop megalithic' syndrome wherby its immense popularity, ease of access, enormity of photographs and visitors means that it is so often belittled and dismissed. Probably the same phenomenon that causes an underground band to become instantly unpopular as soon as they get mainstream attention. Poulnabrone is a masterpiece of its kind, the design and engineering are superlative and if it were not for the rope surrounding it would be perfect. If this was discovered today or even if it were located miles from the nearest track it would get the proper respect and admiration it deserves. Get here very early or very late to avoid the embarrasingly uninformed tour guides and uninterested tour guests. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Poulnabrone (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Monday, 07 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | You are right Ken - it IS a beautiful dolmen/portal tomb/whatever, and how anyone can pass by it without a feeling of awe is beyond me.
Is there a rope around it now? How awful. When I visited in 1999 and 2001 you could go right inside it, and I even dowsed a fascinating and unusual (unique!) ritual (for equinox?) movement route there - so I'm glad I had that opportunity then. It WAS terribly over-run with visitors, but shortly after I left the site (in 2001), and got into my car to draw up some plans, I noticed they'd all gone - why? - it was lunchtime!
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Re: Poulnabrone (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, 09 April 2010 | I got to go there in early March, when we were the only ones there.
It was fantastic! The rope is around it and there are guards there, because there are morons in this world who have to write their names on everything they see. This beautiful structure wouldn't be there if not for someone being there to keep an eye out. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Poulnabrone (Score: 1)
by aurelien on Friday, 28 May 2010
(User Info | Send a Message) | | lovelly site. but i agree with everyone on the point that, anyone can visit, but busload of uninterested tourists should just keep driving to the cliffs of moher, where they can spend there euros aplenty. | [ Reply to This ]
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