What is recorded here

Cairn is a circular burial mound of limestone rocks in County Clare, Ireland. It stands on a broad plateau in rough pasture, with a ravine fifty metres east and a hidden cist near its centre. Six curving kerbstones border the cist, suggesting an oval chamber that human hands may have shaped for death and memory.

On a broad plateau in rough pasture, with a NNE-SSW ravine c. 50m to the E. Within a multiperiod field system (CL009-255---). This circular burial cairn (10.4m N-S; 9.5m E-W; max. H c. 1m at SE) is composed of limestone rocks. Just NW of the centre there is a cist (CL009-200002-). A curving line of six non-contiguous kerbstones (av. dims. L c. 0.4m; H 0.25-0.35m) borders the E side of the cist at a distance of 0.85-1.2m. If continued around the W side of the cist, this line of stones would form an oval kerb (est. diam. c. 3.6-4m). In the N part of the cairn there is a line (L 2.1m) of small upright flagstones, perhaps lodged in a gryke. The following image has been uploaded: CL009-200001-_01.jpg View from NNW Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 July 2022

Neolithic burial cairn, dating to the earlier part of the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE. Such cairns are significant as early funerary monuments, reflecting communal burial practices and social organization in Neolithic Ireland.

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