Date/Time
Date(s) - 4 February 2018
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Burrenbeo Trust
Categories
‘Walking Through the Past’
with Olive Carey
Sunday 4th February, 2018
@1pm in a North Burren Location
February’s Members Walk focuses on a fascinating area of the northern Burren and its wealth of prehistoric heritage, led by archaeology specialist Olive Carey. Survey around the walk location revealed a remarkably well-preserved Early Bronze Age landscape, including three possible settlement sites, field wall systems, and ritual monuments. There is one wedge-tomb in the area along with a number of cairns, excavated in the 1990s to reveal burial activity from 2460 BC through to the Late Bronze Age. During our walk we will look at one of the Early Bronze Age farmsteads, a number of cairns and will cross rough pavement to the wedge tomb.
Olive Carey is based in Shannon and has a long-time interest in the Burren and its archaeology. Currently chairperson of the Shannon Archaeological & Historical Society, Project Coordinator with Dúchas na Sionna and Secretary of the Shannon Wetland Restoration Project, she completed a Masters in Archaeology in NUI Galway on the prehistoric monuments in a Burren valley and the surrounding hillsides.
Please note we are still operating a winter schedule with a start time of 1pm to ensure safe return in daylight. Some of the walk is along a track but parts will be over fairly rough ground; good hiking boots are essential as is appropriate clothing for the weather, including waterproofs. No dogs allowed. While the focus of the walk will be on information sharing rather than covering large distances, a reasonable level of fitness is required. For more information please email [email protected] or phone 091 638096.