What is recorded here

Roughan Hill on the Burren edge still holds four prehistoric farms within two hundred metres, proving that people lived there before history learned their names. The large cairn stands eighty-five metres north of the newest farm, marking death or memory beside the living fields. Nobody records whether they feared the stones or loved them, but the cluster suggests continuity rather than accident.

Situated on Roughan Hill on the E edge of the Burren. Survey and excavation in this area (Jones et al. 2011, 33-58) have revealed a prehistoric landscape comprising farms, cairns and megalithic tombs lying within a contemporary field system (c. 2.5km N-S, c. 1.5km E-W) comprising many sections of prehistoric mound wall (CL016-172----). Four such farms are clustered on Roughan Hill within 200m of each other (see CL016-167003-, CL016-173----, CL017-173001-, CL016-174----, CL016-175----, CL016-176----, CL016-177----). This record is for the large cairn c. 85m N of the most northerly farm. (Jones 2008, 42-53) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 4 May 2016

A Neolithic cairn; part of a prehistoric landscape with farms and megalithic tombs in the Burren. Its presence highlights the region's significance as an early settlement and ritual area in western Ireland.

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