Prehistoric Burren and Öland Landscape

Prehistoric Burren and Öland Landscape

Prehistoric Burren landscape with ancient sacred ruins like Corcomroe Abbey Saint Flannan’s Cathedral Quinn Abbey Saint Bridget’s Well or Dabhach Bhríde Bridget’s Bath . Or Megalithic Tomb on Roughan Hill 5,500 years old Stands early Bronze age farmstead with five settlements of Ireland’s first farmers with fields and walls .

Oldest monument on the hill is Parknabinna court tomb dated about middle of millennium BC boasts a Cairn with gallery of three chambers fronted by a forecourt . Excavation showed Burren limestone as great preserver of humans and animals where bones were laid in patterns of Clan Coleman, Bourke, Concannon, Delany, Dinan, Carmody Carolan Bowen, Clancy’s, Kelly’s and Dwyer’s . & in Öland Abrahamsson, Magnusson, Beckström, Olsson, Gunnarsson, Knutsson, Berglund, Björk, Stenberg, Sörensson, Rosenberg, Öman, Dahl, Lund, Nyström, Svensson, Tjäder . Öland boasts Stone Age settlements, at Alby mesolithic village an icebridge that connects Öland Island to Kalmar Strait and stone ship burial grounds from Iron to Viking age & Noah’s Ark stone ship located on Karums Alvar gravefield with Öland Island serving as a royal gamepark once .