Poll na Brón, Ballyvaughan, County Clare
The Burren, County Clare • 4m 51s
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!
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