What is recorded here

Half-buried under heather on Carron Mountain, the boundary cairn still drops its stones through the grass like a fist pushing through a blanket. It marks the line between Cork and Limerick, not with a wall or warning, but with a small pile of rocks that people kept rebuilding because the mountain would not stop swallowing them. To walk past it is to admit the border exists; to climb over it is to say the mountain belongs to nobody.

One of five cairns (15191, 15193, 15195, 15192) near top of Carron Mountain (see 11813), marking the Cork-Limerick border. Cairn (3.5m N-S; 3m E-W; H 0.6m) is covered in grass and heather; several large stones can be seen protruding through overgrowth. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Boundary Cairn, Streamhill East is a prehistoric boundary marker, likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, and is significant as part of a group of cairns used to demarcate the ancient Cork-Limerick territorial divide.

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