Poulawack burial cairn was excavated in 1935 and found to contain the remians of 18 people, buried at different times between 3350 BC and 1400 BC. It is about 21 metres in diameter and two and a half metres high, significantly smaller than when it was surveyed by TJ Westropp 100 years ago.
200 metres east of the cairn is a ruined ringfort. The entrance of a souterrain (underground tunnel) inside the fort is still visibleThe souterrain entrance outside the fort
The inaugural mound of the Kings of the Dal gCais, including Brian Boru, later the first High King of Ireland. The mound is in the centre of a large, natural amphitheatre, and is reputed to be the burial place of Adhar, brother of Aengus of Dun Aengus (on the Aran Islands).
John O’Donovan suggested in 1839 that the mound probably contained an early iron age tombSection of the fosse, up to the causewayThe causeway, on the western side of the moundBasin stone to the north of the mound. It has been suggested that as part of the ritual, the new king would wash himself with sacred water from the basinPillar stone on the other side of the Hell river, located directly across from the causeway
Nenagh castle, the finest example of a cylindrical keep in the country, was built around 1200 AD by Theobald Fitzwalter, who came over with first Anglo-Norman invasion.
The upper windows and crenellations were added in the 19th centuryTie stones show where the curtain wall ran from the west side of the towerThe GarderobeLooking down on the ruins of the southern gatehouse and towerThe keep with the gatehouse in the backgroundRound-arched embrasure
An ancient monastic settlement, originally founded by St Colman Mac Duagh. The largely 12th century ruins are situated in a fertile valley among the spectacular limestone hills of the Burren.
The east church, situated outside the inner enclosure and possibly a lady chapel?Round headed doorway in small oratoryWestern church, with oratory to the rearTrabeate doorway, western church