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Burren and Aran Islands Photo Gallery

SITES AND SCENERY AROUND THE BURREN

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View of the Oughtmama Early Christian monastery looking down from Turlough Hill.

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Late Medieval church at Rathborney.

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The massive enclosure on top of Turlough Hill. It is probably a Neolithic ritual enclosure.

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The Poulawack burial cairn near the centre of the Burren. Burial in this monument took place over a period of almost 2,000 years, starting in the Neolithic and continuing into the Bronze Age.

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The massive inner wall of the triple-ringed cliff fort of Cahercommaun on the Burren.

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Two of the churches in the Oughtmama monastery sited high up in a remote valley in the north-west Burren.

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The cobble beach at Doolin, used by Neolithic people as a source of 'blanks' from which they manufactured polished stone axes.

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Later prehistoric ring barrows near Doolin, where the Burren meets the Atlantic.

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Hut Circles on the summit of Turlough Hill. They are probably Neolithic and associated with the nearby large (ritual?) enclosure as well as the large cairn that are also on the summit.

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Aerial view of the spectacularly sited Early Medieval cliff fort of Cahercommaun in the eastern Burren.

SITES AND SCENERY AROUND THE ARAN ISLANDS

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The stone fort of Dun Eochla located on the high ground near the centre of Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands.

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This cross-decorated stone stands as a boundary marker of the sanctified land surrounding the early monastic site of Teampaill Chiarain (St. Ciaran's Monastery) on Inishmore.

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This fragment of a high cross depicts a hooded horserider. It is located inside the church of Tighlagheany on Inishmore, one of several early churches on the Aran Islands.

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The very small oratory of Temple Benan on Inishmore. On the inside it measures only a little over three meters long by just over two meters wide.

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