Pictures from near Bunclody
Portal Dolmens or
Portal Tombs are some of our most ancient archaeological remains. This one near Carlow
town (half an hour from Bunclody) is
probably close to six thousand years old. That is well over a thousand years older than
the oldest pyramids. To touch such an ancient monument
gives such a strange feeling of how relatively insignificant a normal life-span is. I also
got feelings of admiration for the people who built these and gave
birth to people who struggled and survived down though the millennia to the time that we
now live in.
It is free to visit, and from the car park on the road it is a short walk along a well
surfaced walkway. GPS=N52.8376 W6.8764
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