What is recorded here

Cairn is a low, grass-covered, flat-topped stone mound on a broad west-facing slope in County Clare, Ireland. It sits within a multiperiod field system and near several enclosures, marking a place where people shaped the land across centuries. The stones may have guided herds, marked a boundary or honoured a memory now lost. Whatever they were, they are still there, holding the shape of human attention on an ordinary ridge.

On the broad W-facing slope of an E-W ridge, in rough pasture within a multiperiod field system (CL009-166001-). This is a low, grass-covered and flat-topped cairn (H 0.3-0.8m; base 7.8m N-S; 7m E-W; top 4.5m E-W; 3.4m N-S). There are enclosures (CL009-196003-; CL009-252----; CL009-196001-) c. 30m to the ESE, c. 48m to the SSE and c. 66m to the ENE respectively. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 12 July 2022

A Bronze Age cairn; its presence indicates early land use and burial practices in a multiperiod landscape.

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