Poulnabrone Dolmen under the Harvest Moon

Gallery Edition: Limited to 75 in series of three sizes on heavyweight fine art paper.

Artist Edition: Limited to 15. Fine art cotton rag paper print, float mounted on wood, laminated and set in a wooden tray frame. Prices on request.

Just before dawn, with the full harvest moon high in the sky, the portal tomb of Poulnabrone looms larger than life over the lunar landscape of The Burren, County Clare.

The Burren is one of the finest karst landscapes in Europe. It is known locally as ‘The Fertile Rock’ due to the exceptional diversity and abundance of the plants and flowers that grow in the multitude of cracks and grykes of the limestone pavement.

Against this backdrop, the skeleton of the portal tomb remains steadfast and static as life waxes and wanes through the seasons all around it.

This photograph with the Harvest Moon, was taken by special request to feature as the frontispiece of the book published on the excavations that took place here in the 1980s. The book was published in 2014 and can be purchased here: Poulnabrone: An early Neolithic portal tomb in Ireland’ (wordwellbooks.com)

The remains of at least 35 people were found during excavation and the most recent carbon dating project suggests that this is one of, if not the earliest megaliths in Ireland.

Print only on heavyweight fine art cotton rag paper with white border. Sizing relates to paper size.