What is recorded here

Cairn is a burial mound on the Furness House grounds in County Kildare, where a low circular kerb of large stones still marks the place where adult cremated bone, a bronze ring and part of a blue glass bracelet were found. The ridge feels like a threshold between domestic garden and older claim, as if the house and its fields had grown around a warning rather than a trophy. People may have passed this spot for centuries, sensing that the ground beneath the grass remembered heat, loss and the small weight of a ring laid with the dead.

Towards the N end of a narrow, moderately steep-sided pasture ridge on the landscaped grounds of Furness House. An earthen enclosure (KD019-022001-) containing a standing stone (KD019-022002-) and a cist burial (KD019-022003-) stands c. 65m to the N. Archaeological excavation in the early 1980's revealed that a low, grass-covered, circular mound (diams. 17.5m N-S; 17m E-W; max H 0.6m) delimited by a kerb of large stones, was composed of earth, stone and gravel, and had a central, oval-shaped stone core overlying a small central stake hole (charcoal dated GrN-1540 + 30BP). Several pits, and two deposits of cremated bone, one of which consisted of the remains of an adult were uncovered and finds included a portion of a blue glass bracelet, and a bronze ring (Grogan 1983-84, 298-315). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Neolithic burial cairn, dating to approximately 4000–2500 BCE. Its presence within an earthen enclosure and proximity to a standing stone and cist burial suggest it was part of a broader ritual or funerary landscape.

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