dolmens dublin

Kiltiernan Dolmen is a stone age dolmen from about 200 B.C, it is located at the foothills of the Dublin Montains.
The dolmen is now partically collapsed.

The tomb mesures 6 meters long, 4 meters in height and it weighs 40 tonnes....

Although partly collapsed on its supports and overgrown with bracken and scrub, this is nonetheless a noble megalith.

when complete it would have stood 15 feet high at the chamber entrance, where there now survives only the broken portion of one of the great portal stones, against which the massy capstone leans, its other end resting on the ground. A second portal stone nearly 15 feet long, lies fallen alongside.

Borlase believed this to be a distinct class of tomb - an...