Now earier in the semester if you remember I’d gone on another tour to the Cliffs and I’d thought that was fun. Now let me tell you that pales in comparison with Barrett. We went all through the Burren and saw al kinds of cool forts and stone things.
First stop was Leamenagh Castle. It was originally just a tower built in 1480, it’s the tower connected to the castle on the right in my picture. The name Leamenagh comes from the Gaelic "léim an éich" which means "the horse's leap". The manor house was erected in 1648 by Conor O'Brien and his wife, Máire ní Mahon.
^This is what it would have looked like^
From Caherconnell we left to Poulnabrone Tomb, which is a famous Dolmen in the Burren. Poll na mBrón in Gaelic meaning "hole of sorrows". The Tomb is from the Neolithic and dated between 4200 BC to 2900 BC. Here’s the low down on it. The capstone is 12 feet long and the portal stones (the stones holding up the capstone) are 6 feet high. Accodring to Wikipedia “A crack was discovered in the eastern portal stone in 1985. Following the resulting collapse, the dolmen was dismantled, and the cracked stone was replaced. Excavations during this time found that between 16 and 22 adults and 6 children were buried under the monument. Personal items buried with the dead included a polished stone axe, a bone pendant, quartz crystals, weapons and pottery. In the Bronze Age, around 1700BC, a newborn baby was buried in the portico, just outside the entrance. With its dominating presence on the limestone landscape of the Burren, the tomb was likely a centre for ceremony and ritual until well into the Celtic period or it may have served as a territorial marker in the Neolithic landscape” That’s pretty darn epic if you ask me. 
^Aran Islands in the bay^
