What is recorded here

Clearance cairns built in the 19th century still mark the narrow rectangular fields of County Mayo. They are not ancient monuments but human shape made visible: stones removed from soil, stacked at edges, carried across a field that resisted ease. Their irregular forms suggest urgency rather than ceremony. People lived there, repeated the work, and left behind a landscape where effort has become form.

This record was listed in the SMR (1991) and RMP (1997) as 'cairns'. These are field clearance cairns, dotted throughout a field system (MA072-127001-) of narrow rectangular and subrectangular fields. The cairns (max. dims. 3-5.5m; H 1.3-1.6m) are irregular in shape, varying from crescentic to subtriangular to subcircular in plan, and most likely date to the 19th century (pers. comm. R. Crumlish, 2017). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 May 2021

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