
Under our dolmen we buried our kin
Down in a hole we dug deep within.
Twenty-one now, and a babe newly born,
In the hope of new life on a far distant morn.
Poulnabrone Dolmen (trans. 'The Hole of Sorrows'), a Neolithic burial site in the Burren.
It was erected anything as far back as 4200BC, making it terribly, terribly old. When excavated as part of its preservation process in 1985, the ancient remains of some twenty people were interred beneath. There is an equally ancient passage tomb several fields away from Poulnabrone.
The rain has just passed by.
Ireland, 2009
Down in a hole we dug deep within.
Twenty-one now, and a babe newly born,
In the hope of new life on a far distant morn.
Poulnabrone Dolmen (trans. 'The Hole of Sorrows'), a Neolithic burial site in the Burren.
It was erected anything as far back as 4200BC, making it terribly, terribly old. When excavated as part of its preservation process in 1985, the ancient remains of some twenty people were interred beneath. There is an equally ancient passage tomb several fields away from Poulnabrone.
The rain has just passed by.
Ireland, 2009
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