County Clare

1988 - The Poulnabrone Dolmen on the Burren.  On the west coast of Ireland, the Burren covers some 200 square miles, a vast limestone plateau supporting flowers from the Arctic-Alpine and the Mediterranean, with fissures in the great pavements, as they are termed, providing moist and sheltered environment for plant life.  

It's a somewhat strange and eerie area of land on a grey and damp day rendering it even more mysterious than at other times. 

There is a well-known quote from one of Cromwell’s soldiers in 1651 stating that the Burren is ‘a country where there is not water enough to drown a man, wood enough to hang one nor earth enough to bury one … yet their cattle are very fat’.