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  Hotels Carlow, Luxury Hotel Carlow, Hotel Accommodation Carlow, The Dolmen Carlow
Situated on the banks River Barrow within luscious green grounds, The Dolmen Hotel makes the perfect location for a relaxing break, business conferences and of course weddings.
Access is simple as the hotel is situated just outside Carlow on the Kilkenny Road and offers complimentary parking.
The warm and friendly staff will ensure that you have a truly relaxing and memorable stay.
www.dolmenhotel.ie   (133 words)

  
  Dolmen - default
Microsoft erkent Dolmen als strategische partner voor Information Worker
Dolmen valt in de prijzen op de Data News Awards for Excellence
Dolmen wordt eerste Aeroscout Gold Partner in België – Localisatie naar uw bedrijfsvloer gebracht.
www.dolmen.be /home   (78 words)

  
  Dolmen String Quartet Ireland - Irish Wedding Musicians
The Dolmen String Quartet specialises in providing live music to bring a unique atmosphere to weddings, corporate events and special occasions in Ireland.
Our repertoire ranges from well-known baroque and classical pieces to more modern jazz standards, show tunes and arrangements of popular songs.
For Booking enquiries and availability please select bookings or follow the links for further information.
www.geocities.com /dolmenq   (146 words)

  
  www.myspace.com/dolmen
Dolmen is a collaborative project between visual/sound artist Steven K. Smith and solo ambient/installation artist Jason Sloan.
Dolmen receives it's warm, dark,dense and powerfull organic sound by the variety of traditional instrumentation as well as electronic analog elements.Since "Ritual Awakening" was released in April 2002, it has received critical acclaim for it's forging of new territory in the dark-tribal-ambient field.
Dolmen is a sonic experience of dense sound walls, minimal ambiance, and tribal fury.
myspace.com /dolmen   (430 words)

  
 dolmen hotel
The Dolmen Hotel stands on the spot once occupied by Belmont House, an impressive 19th century house which was for many years the home of the Thomas Family.
Adjacent to the The Dolmen Hotel one will find the River Court Lodges which are available to rent on a daily basis or for longer periods at reduced rates.
The dolmen has a granite capstone weighing about 100 tonnes and is the largest of its kind in Europe.
www.carlowtourism.com /hoteldolmen.html   (693 words)

  
 Dolmen Information
Dolmens (also known as cromlechs, Hünengräber, Hunebedden and quoits) are megalithic tombs consisting of large stones (megaliths) set in formation and originally covered with earth or smaller stones.
Hunebedden are chamber tombs similar to dolmens and date to the middle Neolithic (Funnelbeaker culture, 4th millennium BC).
Dolmens, Menhirs and Megaliths in the Languedoc in the South of France
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Dolmen   (456 words)

  
 Dolmen - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Dolmen, type of prehistoric chamber consisting of two or more huge unhewn stone slabs, or megaliths, set edgewise in the earth and supporting a flat...
Stone megaliths and burial chambers called dolmens, built during...
Like dolmens round my childhood, the old people.
encarta.msn.com /Dolmen.html   (120 words)

  
 Download Dolmen Plain - Linotype.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dolmen font revives the look of the 1920s and suggests all the glamour and culture of the jazz age.
The Dolmen™ Plain typeface belongs to the Dolmen™ Font Family which is part of the ITC Collection.
Dolmen is a trademark or a registered trademark of International Typeface Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
www.linotype.com /11777/dolmenplain-fontsample.html   (326 words)

  
 Codes Dolmen
It is the Trail of the Dolmens from the Middle East to the West.
The appearance of the word DOLMEN in Coded Form in the verse Jeremiah 31:21 in alignment with or intercepting the words that were intrepreted as referring to the Path of the Dolmens is definitely significant.
The trail of the Dolmens traces a path of migration.
www.britam.org /codesbrit/CodesDolmen.html   (810 words)

  
 Megaliths of Carnac: Dolmen / Passage Graves
The oldest dolmen in the Carnac area was built 1000 years before the pyramids in Egypt.
The wedge-shaped dolmen had no distinct separation between the passage and chamber; the passage was simply wider at the inner end than at the entrance.
There are more dolmen than are shown here; some are badly destroyed, others inaccessible in woods or farmer's fields and still others not marked on maps and only found by pure luck.
members.tripod.com /Menhirs/dolmen.html   (1622 words)

  
 Dolmens in Kanghwa Island 1: Ancient Art Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There are three typical dolmens in korea ; Northern style looks like a table, Southern style looks like a baduk (korean chess) board, and Cover stone style looks like a cover of the kettle was found in all over the country.
A large prop stone plate, measures 3m x 2m x 40Cm, is inclined to the east at an angle of 20 degrees.
"The dolmen is lopsided from the west to the east because the stone that supports the cover stone at the east end has fallen down.
myhome.shinbiro.com /~kbyon/dolmen/kanghw1.htm   (334 words)

  
 ¢Æ Dolmen park - Korean Dolmens
However, the density of dolmens is lower compared with that of the other two areas.
However, just ten pieces of dolmens were found in Seosan north of the west coast or the coastal area of Taean, and few dolmens were confirmed in Asan, Chonan, Dangjin and Yesan.
Dolmens in this area were investigated to determine the inside structure and as a result, coffins made of stone plates were found in Wonbongri, Nonsan and Shinkiri.
www.dolmen.or.kr /e_html/e_park/sub04/e_park04_01_09.html   (152 words)

  
 Dolmen Restorers from the Future
This dolmen is oriented towards the Mourne mountains and the restorers are adjusting the properties of the artifact to align it with the central power nexus using 23rd century, futuristic science.
It is amazing that this magnificent dolmen has stood for over 5000 years, but luckily the dolmen restorers from the future are on hand to restore it before it is washed away in the sands of time, lost to future generations.
In this picture, the exact location of which must remain undisclosed, the dolmen restorer from the future has made himself invisible to protect the dolmen, however if you look in the background you can see the temporal pod which the dolmen restorer used to arrive from the future.
thedolmenrestorers.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /Recent.htm   (583 words)

  
 Dolmen Stockbrokers
Dolmen Securities Limited is one of Irelands leading financial services and stockbroking groups, and is part of the Munich Re group, the world's largest re-insurance company.
Dolmen Stockbrokers is the largest independent stockbroker in Ireland with offices in Dublin, Cork and Limerick.
Dolmen Fund Management provides clients with a range of discretionary fund management services, ranging from the management of large public funds such as :- the Sunrise Fund plc, or the Dolmen Irish Equity Fund to the management of large segregated accounts and alternative investment vehicles such as futures funds.
www.dolmenstockbrokers.ie /groupinformation.shtml   (619 words)

  
 Dolmen Restorers from the Future
The dolmen restorers from the future are on hand to rectify this sorry state of affairs.
Our next dolmen is the local dolmen to the dolmen restorers from the future and as you can see there has been some restoration completed by the restorers and it is in much better repair.
Finally, we come to another badly dilapidated dolmen which is again situated local to the restorers.In this case the actual capstone (weighing more than 50 tons) is in danger of collapsing so restoration will begin in the summer of 2006.
thedolmenrestorers.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /Restoring.htm   (272 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for dolmen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dolmens were originally used as burial chambers and covered by a barrow.
Of note are numerous prehistoric dolmens and tumuli and many medieval castles and manors.
Dolmens, Kyongju Set to Be Designated as World Heritages.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=dolmen   (720 words)

  
 Poulnabrone Dolmen- County Clare - VirtualTourist.com
Dolmens were used as graves back then and there are several existing in Ireland still.
Poll na bró means "hole of the grinding stone" and a dolmen is a tomb chamber made from vertical stones with a large capstone.
As you approach the dolmen you also notice the terrain that is particular to The Burren.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Ireland/County_Clare/Things_To_Do-County_Clare-Poulnabrone_Dolmen-BR-1.html   (1251 words)

  
 City of the Silent - Grave Terminology
With the advent of modern day grave-robbing and archaeology, dolmen were discovered inside of burial mounds with the supposed meal underneath the table.
Science concluded that they formed a vault and supposed that exposed versions were either incomplete tombs or windblown remains.
Cromlechs and dolmen are the same thing, but since French is considered more chíc than Welsh, the latter term is preferred by the scientific community these days.
www.alsirat.com /silence/cemterms/dolmen.html   (103 words)

  
 Le Dolmen de Bagneux, monument mégalithique près de Saumur
The famous Dolmen in Bagneux is probably one of the most majestic French dolmens and the largest of the 4,500 dolmens spread out on about 60 French departments.
The overall length of this dolmen is over 23 meters (75 feet) and its chamber is over 18 meters (60 feet) long.
As all dolmens, the 'Great Covered stone" in Bagneux, was a large chamber tomb which must have contained a great number of prehistoric skeletons during the neolithic age, i.e.from 4,000 to 2,000 B.C., that is about 5,000 years ago.
www.saumur-dolmen.com /dolmen.html   (460 words)

  
 Proleek Dolmen and gallery grave, Co. Louth
The megalithic dolmen at Proleek, located in the legendary Cooley Peninsula, is one of the finest examples in Ireland, and is widely photographed and documented.
Access to the dolmen is through the grounds of a hotel, and then across a golf course, but it is well worth a visit.
It has been suggested the dolmen may once have been covered with a cairn of stones, but no evidence of this can be found.
www.mythicalireland.com /ancientsites/proleek   (409 words)

  
 Dolmen Press
The Dolmen Press was operated by Liam Miller from 1951 to 1987.
Alspach, Russell K. “Yeats and Innisfree.” (1965) Dublin: Dolmen Press; Distributed outside Ireland, Canada, and the United States of America by Oxford University Press.
Dublin: Dolmen Press; Distributed outside Ireland, Canada, and the United States of America by Oxford University Press.
www.lib.umd.edu /RARE/SpecialCollection/privatepress/dolmenpress.html   (683 words)

  
 The Dolmen Grove home
The Cotswold Order Of Druids, Members of the Dolmen Grove attended a fabulous Solstice Rite within Stone Henge, and although out of the deepest respect for our rites and rituals no photographs are taken during, we did snap a few shots to mark the occasion.
The Dolmen pagan folk band proudly played a medieval fanfare that accompanied the procession upon the trek to the eastern corner of the Stones.
Whilst the offerings were being made The Dolmen once again played a flurry of drums accompanied by Flute and Bouzouki and Guitar.
www.thedolmen.com /stonehengedolmen.htm   (382 words)

  
 faldouet dolmen   (Site not responding. Last check: )
These early settlers came from a megalthic tradition of erecting stone monuments, known locally as dolmens or menhirs.
These stone monuments are a common attribute of Neolithic man and their exact function is still clouded in mystery, what is certain is they were clearly a focus of religous beliefs.
On the hill behind Anneport Bay is one of the island's most impressive dolmens, La Pouqelaye de Faldouet, or Faldouet Dolmen.
jersey.typepad.com /faldouet_dolmen   (244 words)

  
 Stones of Ireland - Poulnabrone dolmen
One of the best-known of all Irish dolmens
The dolmen is surrounded by a low mound, largely made up of stones, but it seems unlikely ever to have covered the whole monument.
It is worth noting that in the same area there are about seventy other tombs, like the one at Gleninsheen.
www.stonepages.com /ireland/poulnabrone.html   (286 words)

  
 Poulnabrone Dolmen
The first excavation of Poulnabrone Dolmen was in 1986 and then again in 1988 by Ann Lynch.
The dolmen, which is also called a portal tomb, is made up of a large single capstone that rests on two portal stones, two more orthostats, and an end stone.
The entrance of the dolmen faces to the North.
www.nd.edu /~ikuijt/Ireland/Sites/cquinn/poulnabronedetail.htm   (1193 words)

  
 Dolmen Associates - Contemporary Art & Sound Services
At the risk of jumping to conclusions, Dolmen would like to deliver by the present work a first-hand account of the way in which contemporary art and music could co-act within the most dramatic of natural surroundings or developed environments.
Dolmen's starting point was to investigate unfamiliar territories.
Yet, as the story has unfolded, the scene's cruelty towards the artists and musicians, its urge to stifle them, was only equalled by the formidable wealth of creation which then emerged, almost organically.
www.dolmen.ch /en/news.php?idIndex=0&idContent=3   (202 words)

  
 New Dolmen Hotel Qawra Malta - Holidays in Malta
The culture and tradition of the islands seep into the fabric of the whole resort from the Neolithic Dolmen Temple to contemporary room design and exemplary standards of service, facilities and cuisine.
derives its name from the 'Dolmen' which is the archaeological remains situated in the hotel's garden, and around which the hotel is built.
The 4-star Gold New Dolmen Hotel consists of 380 bedrooms and 2 junior suites located on five floors.
www.maltahotel.net /hotel/0028NewDolmenHotel/index.html   (353 words)

  
 Burren information - ancient burial sites Poulnabrone Dolmen
The Dolmen is surronded by the characteristic Burren limestone pavement where a patient visitor may find examples of the famous burren flora.
The dolmen itself is located a short walk from the road approximatly one hundred meters and is just 1 kilometer north of Cahreconnell.
Poulnabrone Dolmen excavated in 1986 by Dr Anne Lynch of Duchas, among the discoveries were the remains of 16-22 adults and 6 children.
www.burrenforts.ie /mainj/dolmen.htm   (220 words)

  
 Dolmen crystal glasses by Waterford at GREAT prices!
The brilliance and sparkle of Dolmen crystal glasses by Waterford is remarkable.
Uncompromising standards of craftsmanship and quality is what Dolmen crystal glasses by Waterford is all about.
Dolmen crystal glasses by Waterford is known for its engaging cuts in the finest quality crystal.
www.chinacabinetonline.com /waterford/dolmen-stem.html   (153 words)

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