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All over Ireland you can find artifacts of a distant past, like stone circles or dolmens. Many of those remarkable sites can be seen along the Wild Atlantic Way where they stood for many centuries. One of them is the Kilclooney Dolmen, which is one of the biggest and most beautiful Dolmens of Ireland.
Kilclooney More (Irish: Cill Chluanadh Mhór, [3] meaning church of the pasture) [4] is a townland in the northwest of Ireland in coastal County Donegal. It is situated halfway between Narin and Ardara at the R261 on the Loughrea Peninsula.
All over Ireland you can find artifacts of a distant past, like stone circles or dolmens. Many of those remarkable sites can be seen along the Wild Atlantic Way where they stood for many centuries. One of them is the Kilclooney Dolmen, which is one of the biggest and most beautiful Dolmens of Ireland.
Donegal's dazzler The Kilclooney Dolmen is located in southwest Donegal and is one of Ireland's most elegant. It is also one of the largest and heaviest examples in Europe weighing in at over 100 tonnes.
KILCLOONEY DOLMEN. The dolmen at Kilclooney in County Donegal, which dates from circa. 3500 BC, is a very fine example of a dolmen, or portal tomb and is thought to be one of the best, if not the best, in Ireland. (A dolment, also called a portal tomb megalithic buriel chamber).
The Kilclooney Megaliths. This very impressive portal dolmen is located up the boggy fields behind the church in the small village of Kilclooney, north of Ardara in County Donegal. It is easy to find: there is a track that leads up the bog from the left side of the church. An antiquarian image of the Kilclooney dolmen dated 1799.
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