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Cairn

Cairn, boundary cairn

What is recorded here

Half a kilometre west of Ballyvague, a boundary cairn still stands in rough pasture on the ridge between Slievecushnabinnia and Galtymore Mountain. It marks the edge of Knocknagalty and Drumleagh, not as a grand monument but as a practical line drawn through grass, stone and rain. People may have passed it for generations, reading the shape of the land rather than the name of the townland.
In rough pasture, on the ridge between Slievecushnabinnia and Galtymore Mountain, on the townland boundaries between Knocknagalty and Drumleagh. Boundary cairn (LI050-030001-) lies 50m to the NW. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular-shaped mound. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 9 November 2021

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