What is recorded here

Carron Mountain still drops shadows across Cork and Limerick, but the cairn that marked the line has vanished from sight. It resisted the first survey, teased the second into calling it a mound, and now evades even satellite eyes. Five stones once stood witness between Ballyhaght and Streamhill East; perhaps shepherds, ploughs or time took them back. The boundary remains, sharp and invisible, waiting for someone to drop a stone and remind it where it stands.

In rough pasture, on Carron Mountain, on the Cork-Limerick County Boundary along the townland boundaries between Ballyhaght and Streamhill East. One of five boundary cairns (LI055-027001-/002-; LI055-030/043----). Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map and depicted as a small circular-shaped mound on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Appears to be the same record as CO008-023----. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 18 November 2021

A boundary cairn, likely dating to the early historic or medieval period, used to mark territorial divisions. Its significance lies in its role as a landscape marker reflecting ancient or early modern land-use and administrative boundaries.

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