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CAIRN in Tamary

CAIRN

What is recorded here

Cairstead Gorm: a blue-green mound of river stones in Tamary, County Down. Children skipped marbles across its smooth top and called it a fairy kitchen. Adults refused to walk past after dark because the stones whispered names they had forgotten. The mound still stands, slightly larger than memory, as if feeding on the stories told above it.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN. Recorded period: 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
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