What is recorded here

Cairn is a burial mound in County Clare where two accounts still argue about what lies beneath the grass. Road builders broke the stone in 1874 and found a cist holding at least two dead people, but T. J. Westropp wrote in 1917 that no cist existed. That contradiction, rather than a clean answer, is what the cairn keeps: a chamber remembered by one witness and denied by another, still waiting under its five hollows.

At an exposed location in elevated semi-karst rough pastureland within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). This roughly circular grass-covered cairn (diam. 10m; H 1.3m) has a partly stone-lined hollow on its N side, which may be cist (CL010-064109-). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 22 May 2023

A roughly circular burial cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age; its location within a multiperiod landscape suggests broader ritual or funerary significance.

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