Cairn

On a gentle slope, with a view of the Curlew Mountains to N. Excavated in 1973 by Wallace (1974, 23-4) who described 'two roughly concentric rings of orthostats, the diameters of which were 14.5m and 8m', the inner and outer retaining walls for a 'ring-cairn of loosely placed stones' the height of which would have been at least 1.7m. The inner circular area was empty except for a segment in the SE quadrant which contained two short cists (SL046-003002-; SL046-003003-) covered by a thin layer of cairn stones and revetted by a low crescent-shaped setting of small orthostats. The soil under the cairn stones was flecked with charcoal. The site is now evident as a kidney-shaped sod-covered cairn (4.3m x 3m). (Waddell 1990, 133) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

A ring-cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its concentric orthostat rings suggest ritual or ceremonial significance, typical of funerary or communal sites in Atlantic Europe.