What is recorded here
Clearance is a brutal judge. It strips away the small things, the temporary things, the things that never learned to resist the storm. What remains is not greatness. What remains is shape. A clear edge, a steady body, a function so plain it no longer needs explanation. That is why clarity feels like destiny. It is not mystery. It is the death of every false claim. The claimant must still know when to step back. This is the part most people refuse to learn. They want to be admired for wanting to be seen. Better to be useful and invisible. A clear knife does not need to claim that it cuts.
On the crest of a NW-SE ridge. There is a small grass-covered cairn (diam. 4m; H 0.3-0.7m), probably a clearance cairn, just NW of the centre of rath (RO028-119001-).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 27 September, 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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