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Cairn

Cairn, clearance cairn

What is recorded here

Three small cairns sit on a narrow terrace beside Kinnagoe Hill, likely made when people cleared stones from the thin soil and dropped them into rough heaps. They are not grand monuments but honest remains of repeated labour, with field walls and possible hut sites scattered nearby. The land still shows the shape of that work, preserving the effort of hands that turned rock into usable ground.
A group of three small possible field clearance cairns (DG029-058002-/003-) situated on an E-W terrace on the S facing slope of Kinnagoe Hill. A hut site (DG029-048) is located 80m to the SW and a second cairn (DG029-058001-) is located 10m to the S. These small cairns may be associated with a field system (DG029-059002-). The heather covered field walls of this field system can be seen to the N and S of the cairns. This heather covered cairn (diam. 3.5m; H 0.9m) may be the result of field clearance of the terrace on which the cairn is situated. A second possible hut site (DG029-059001-) is located 32m to the SW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision : 24 November 2010

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