Ballina’s Bronze-Age beauty

The Ballina Dolmen is located just outside the town of Ballina on Primrose Hill overlooking the Moy River. These are not the remains of a portal tomb but rather a cist grave from the center of a Bronze Age burial cairn. The tomb is also known as the ‘Dolmen of the Four Maols’ and has folklore attached to it. The story goes that four former clerics, known as the ‘four Maols’, were buried here in during the 6th century. They were said to have murdered the popular Bishop of Killala and were, in turn, murdered by the bishop’s brother because of intrigue over the succession to the Kingship of Connaught.