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Re: Day 2: County Clare
Faux Pas, on host 38.164.171.7
Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:47:08
Re: Day 2: County Clare posted by Nyperold on Saturday, August 25, 2001, at 19:41:09:
> > ..."cairn" simply means "rock".
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> > ("dolmen", by the way, means "rock")
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> Okay, so I mucked about with the order of things. What's the difference between a cairn and a dolmen?
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
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