What is recorded here

Half a metre of grass on a Clare plateau hides a burial chamber that men dug open for a road in 1874, yet Westropp swore in 1917 that no chamber existed. The contradiction still sits inside the stone, neither proven nor dismissed, while a quarry breathes heat against the ancient edge. What was removed, missed or never seen at all has stopped mattering; the cairn keeps its secret by refusing to choose between the two truths.

On a slight rise in a plateau of grass and karst limestone in rough pasture, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-032001-). This subcircular burial cairn (6.4m E-W; 6m N-S; max. H 0.3m) is covered in grass. A cist (CL009-066002-) is centrally placed within the cairn. A cashel (CL009-064001-) lies c. 68m to the SW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 5 April 2022

Burial cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its location within a multiperiod landscape highlights its potential role in a broader ritual or funerary tradition of the Burren region.

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