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James and I ventured into the Burren on foot in search of a burial cairn mentioned in the Lonely Planet guidebook. There was an official signpost on the side of the road, which pointed off into a farmer's field. It was odd as tourist attractions went--you had to climb over a low barbed-wire fence, up an unmarked, trailless hillside dodging cow dung and chuckholes, and just sort of wander around until you found the cairn. We went to several piles of stones first, wondering if this pile was the cairn or that pile, but eventually saw the distinctive and rather creepy hole in the earth shown here. The chamber goes back about eight feet and then turns to the right, rapidly filling in with earth and rock but still distinct from the surface for perhaps ten feet. Interesting structure.
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