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1 Built Heritage Ecobeo

2 Built heritage/tombs Burren built heritage are remains of structures from the mesolithic, neolithic, iron age & bronze age. The tombs: Portal tombs, wedge tombs,court tombs & passage tombs are burial chambers that were used in the Burren a long time ago. It is not known how these very large stones were moved but it probably involved a combination of wooden rollers and ropes.

3 Passage Tomb

4 Portal tombs (dolmen)

5 Wedge tombs

6 Court tomb

7 Fulachta fiadh: was a cooking site used during the neolithic time
Fulachta fiadh: was a cooking site used during the neolithic time. A rectangular hole was dug in low-lying land where it would quickly fill with water. The meat they were cooking was wrapped in straw and put into the boiling water until it was cooked. A number of the pits survive today as low ‘u’ shaped mounds of soil.

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9 The end By Asha Fern and Sarah


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