What is recorded here
Cairn is a cairn, clearance cairn in Church Island, County Roscommon, Ireland. North of the saints grave on Inishmacnerin, the seven-metre-wide structure rises thirty to sixty centimetres above the ground. A hollow one-point-six metres across and up to one metre deep cuts through the centre, possibly marking an old well.
N of the saints grave (RO006-006002-) on Inishmacnerin is a cairn (diam. 7m; H 0.3-0.6m) with a hollow (diam. 1.6m; D 0.6-1m) which may have been a well.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
A clearance cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age; its hollow may indicate a ritual or functional feature, though its wider significance remains unclear.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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