What is recorded here

CAIRN (O.S. memoir site; unlocated) in Ballyhemlin, County Antrim, Ireland marks a prehistoric human presence though its exact boundary has faded from modern sight. The stone may have guided herds, honoured the dead or simply given people a fixed point against which to measure the changing sky. Whatever it was, it outlasted the hands that built it and still waits beneath grass, rain or memory for someone to notice the shape of what remains.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN (O.S. memoir site; unlocated). Recorded period: PREHISTORIC; UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.