What is recorded here

Cairn is a cairn, unclassified in Bellafarney, County Sligo, Ireland. It sits at the angle of two drystone field walls in the southeast corner of a small rectangular field. The roughly circular, flat-topped mound measures five metres across and rises sixty centimetres. Its dense, compact stones are covered in sods, with a slightly raised rim around the top perimeter.

In pasture, on the level top of a broad, low hill which forms a virtual island of elevated ground surrounded at W–S by lowlying wet, boggy ground. Located at the angle of two drystone field walls, in the SE corner of a small rectangular field. Roughly circular, flat-topped mound (diam. overall 5m, top 3m; H 0.6m) of stones. There is a slightly raised rim around the perimeter on the top of the cairn. The cairn is dense, compact and sod-covered. It appears to straddle a slight rise. The E side is bordered by a NNW–SSE drystone field wall and the S side by a NE–SW field wall. The nature of this cairn is unclear. It may simply be a field clearance cairn which has accumulated against the angle of the two field walls. It could be the remains of a structure, limekiln, or possibly a hut site. It may be contemporary with a structure (SL017-098001-) and enclosure (SL017-098002-) located 10m to NW in the same field. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 11 March 2015

A Neolithic cairn; date uncertain but likely early to middle Neolithic. Its location suggests possible ritual or territorial significance in a landscape characterized by wetland boundaries.

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