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Cairn

Cairn, clearance cairn

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Cairn is a cairn, clearance cairn in Drumalagagh, County Roscommon, Ireland. Two grass-covered mounds sit just south of the rath centre on a rise in an undulating landscape. Each measures 3 to 3.7 metres across and 0.1 to 0.4 metres high.
On a rise in an undulating landscape, and at the centre of rath (RO054-061001-). Two grass-covered cairns (S: diam. 3-3.7m; H 0.1-0.4m), probably clearance cairns, are just S of the centre of the rath (RO054-061001-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Clearance cairn, likely post-medieval in date. Its significance is primarily as a land clearance feature rather than a funerary or ritual monument.

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