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CAIRN? in Ballycoos

CAIRN?

What is recorded here

No visible evidence remains at Ballycoos, only a question mark preserved in the official record. The uncertainty is not evasiveness; it is a refusal to invent a shape that nobody witnessed. A cairn may have stood there in PREHISTORIC time, marked a boundary, buried a person or watched the coast, but the facts stop short of choosing between those possibilities. Keep the question mark because it preserves the exact moment human knowledge ran out.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN?. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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Recorded monument

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