Poulnabrone's by horourke

Burren - Ireland, Clare In an agriculturall society that flourished here thousands of years ago there was sufficient prosperity to erect this monument now believed to be a portal tomb. The meaning of the name is "hollow of the mill stone"

Uploaded: Apr, 19 2008 | Taken: Apr, 07 2008| Viewed: 41 times  | 6 votes

rangutan - Apr, 21 2008 10:04am It is man's nature to pile things on top of each other, we start that in sand-pits when we are toddlers. I can imagine what effort this took, assume the hieght is about four to six feet and that cap weighs a ton? great image [4.3] horourke - Apr, 21 2008 12:04pm Very accurate Rudi, clearly you are a mathematician and engineer of no mean standing. The official estimate is 1.5 tonnes. I got out of bed at 7.a.m. to photograph this on a frosty morning. Thank you for the compliment of the image. rangutan - Apr, 22 2008 05:04pm .... it is one of those structures where a second picture should have a person in it (or plastic rabbit / cola tin / matchbox) as a scale. I travel mainly to discover such structures of early man, nature and geology. Very interesting, thanks!