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CAIRN: CARNGLASS in Carnglass Beg

CAIRN: CARNGLASS

What is recorded here

Carnglass rises in Carnglass Beg, County Antrim, as a prehistoric cairn where ancient hands may have stacked stone to mark the sky or remember the dead. The beg gives the cairn a lonely, exposed character, while the cairn gives the beg a purpose older than written history. Together they suggest a place where people still valued visibility, memory and the endurance of stone.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN: CARNGLASS. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 3700–3000 BCE). It is significant as part of a broader network of passage tombs in Northern Ireland, reflecting early ritual and burial practices.

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