Poll na Brón (Hole of the Millstone) is a Irish Neolithic Dolmen, dating to approximately 4,000BC, based on the human remains interred there. It is a gravestone to our great ancestors. Amazingly, it also houses the first earliest discovery of Down syndrome from an infant buried there over 5,000 years ago!
Nothing quite prepares you for a stroll through native Irish woodland, with wild flowers interspersed with coarse grasses and heather at your feet. Gortlecka provides the lucky traveller with a peaceful walk through the Burren, a rare geological landform that at once supports a huge variety of Ir...
Ballyallaban ringfort consists of a raised circular earthen enclosure upon which a wooden palisade may have been erected to protect those living inside. Ringforts are the second most common archaeological field monument in Ireland, with approximately 60,000 examples existence. They were built by ...
Half way up the slopes of Black Head you come across an ancient cattle highway. These 'green roads', as Tony Kirby from 'Heart of Burren Walks' explains, were used to drove cattle onto the high lands, across the slopes of the limestone pavement, where they would spend their winter, in an activity...