What is recorded here
Craig'anoran rises in Drummuckavall, County Armagh, a prehistoric cairn whose age remains uncertain but whose purpose was likely marker, burial or boundary. The stones may have watched herds, guided travellers or held the dead beneath grass and rain. Whatever it marked, it still stands as a quiet claim that the land was never empty.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN?: CRAIGANORAN. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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