poulnabrone

Rising like a bird about to take off from the karst limestone of the Burren, it attracts by its timeless simplicity, and consists of a very few upright stones (including, now, a necessary modern replacement) supporting a large flat capstone which rises from the back towards the front of the tomb. It is surrounded by a low mound, largely made up of stones, but it seems unlikely ever to have covered the whole monument. Disarticulated bones of 16 adults and children, equally divided between the sexes, were found inside-the remains of at least a part of the Late Stone Age farming community who erected this highly sculptural monument to themselves sometime in the 4th millennium B.C. An excavation in 1986 also unearthed a miniature polished axehead and a variety of flint implements.