Monday, 4 February 2013

The Burren

The Burren is a stark and remarkable landscape of jigsaw patters in the limestone, scoured by glaciers and worn away by erosion. The whole place feels otherworldly, a feeling only increased by the alien-looking fossils found through the rocks, and the caverns that run underneath. Perhaps it's not a coincidence that ancient Irish built Stonehenge-like monuments, like the dolmen in the background, to worship here.
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2 comments:

Leo said...

Dolmens were built as tombs, not as places of worship. They would usually be covered up, so a newly constructed tomb would appear as a barrow, but natural processes and reuse of mound materials results in the bare structure seen today.

4 February 2013 21:00
Brian Kaller said...

Leo,

Fair enough; we don't know that they were places of worship. People here tend to think they were, though, and I suspect that if they had burials there, they had religious rites.

4 February 2013 21:43

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