What is recorded here

Cairn is a subcircular ring-cairn in rough Clare pasture, still holding its grass-covered bank and kerbstones after centuries of weather and work. Its larger southern and western stones suggest people entered, watched or marked the place with purpose. The off-centre interior mound and shallow dip hint at burial, ceremony or memory, while the nearby second cairn suggests this was not a lonely act but a lived landscape.

In rough pasture on a plateau, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-021001-). A subcircular ring-cairn (int. dims. 7.55m N–S; 7.1m E–W) defined by a well-preserved, grass-covered, flat-topped bank (Wth at top 1.25–1.9m; H 0.3–0.5m), which is lined internally and externally with kerbstones (L c. 0.6–0.8; max. H 0.4m; T 0.2m). The kerbstones are generally larger externally between S and W (L 1.5–1.7m). A gap (Wth 2m) at SE is partially filled with field-clearance stones. Within the interior a cairn (dims. 6m N-S; 4.1m E-W; H 0.3-0.5m) is located slightly off-centre at N. Its centre is slightly dipped (diam. 1.5m; D 0.2-0.3m). A drain or gryke is visible outside the bank at N. An unclassified cairn (CL009-021009-) lies c. 55m to the NE. (Grant 2010, 47) The following images have been uploaded: CL009-021008- from S.jpg CL009-021008- S part of ring-cairn from E.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 11 November 2021

A Neolithic ring-cairn, dating to the 4th to 3rd millennia BCE, representing a type of ceremonial or funerary monument associated with early farming communities in Ireland. Its location within a multiperiod landscape highlights its potential role in long-term settlement and ritual activity.

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