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Re: Day 2: County Clare
Posted By: Grishny, on host 12.29.132.98
Date: Friday, August 31, 2001, at 12:56:39
In Reply To: Re: Day 2: County Clare posted by Faux Pas on Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:47:08:

> A cairn is a mound of stones erected as a
marker or a memorial. A dolmen is a mound
of stones erected as a marker or a ... wait a
minute. Um. Oh. I think a dolmen marks a
tomb. Anyway, we didn't see the cairn at all.
>
> -Faux "which means 'rock'" Pas

Dolmen: a prehistoric monument of two or
more upright stones supporting a horizontal
stone slab found especially in Britain and
France and thought to be a tomb

And a cairn is exactly what you said.

Gri"thank you, m-w.com"shny