Nellie's Rock

We went on a hunt today for our first dolmen.  Nellie's Rock in Lecarrow - just north of Athlone. This location being a tomb is debated, even though some artifacts have been found in the general area, but what is known (and I find more interesting) is that a woman by the name of Nellie raised her daughter under these stones.  She built up walls with mud and straw doing her best to provide shelter & to simply survive in the 1850's.  A very difficult time since the great famine was the 1845-46 time frame.  It sits on private land now and surrounded by chain-link fence.

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