What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cairn Hill, Cairnryan as Cairn (prehistoric). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Neolithic cairn; dates to the early to middle first millennium BCE. It is significant as part of a broader pattern of prehistoric funerary and ritual monuments in the Scottish landscape.
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Places near here
Glen BurnStructure (period Unassigned) · 580 yd
Lochryan HouseCountry House (18th Century) · 797 yd
Lochryan House, DovecotDovecot (period Unassigned) · 825 yd
War MemorialMemorial · 1028 yd
Claddy House BurnStructure (period Unassigned) · 1125 yd
Loch RyanBay · 1.3 mi
Mary Stewart: Marchburn, Loch Ryan, Firth of ClydeSchooner (19th Century) · 1.7 mi
Brockloch FellMountain / peak · 2.0 mi
Heart of Oak: Leffnoll Point, Loch Ryan, Firth of ClydeCraft (19th Century) · 2.4 mi
Knockcoid PlantationWood · 2.9 mi
Craigcaffie TowerTower House (medieval) · 3.2 mi
PortencalzieBay · 3.2 miOther information
Photo: Billy McCrorie · CC BY-SA 2.0