What is recorded here

Cairn is a 228-acre townland in County Cavan where prehistoric stones still mark the ground before McKiernan clansmen shaped it into a living landscape. The name itself preserves the shape of the place: a cairn, a burial mound, a heap of stones set among water, wood and lane. Later grants, sales and plantations changed the owners, but they did not erase the older fact that people kept returning to this spot, naming it, building on it and remembering it through loss.

An almost circular cairn of small to medium-sized stones (H 0.6m; dims. 6.2m NW-SE; 5.9m NE-SW). Situated close to the summit of Bruse Hill and heavily overgrown with heather. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

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