What is recorded here

Ten centuries of wind have not scattered the stones. A man may have stacked them after finding the summit empty, giving the sky a small marker he could touch. The central stone still points east-west, unchanged since that first choice.

In rough pasture, on a mountain summit to the S of The West Pap of Dana, with unbroken views in all directions. A roughly square cairn (0.45m N-S; 0.4m E-W; H 0.5m) consisting of medium sized stones. A centrally placed stone (dims. 0.1m x 0.07m), which is orientated E-W, protrudes (H 0.1m) above the top of the cairn. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

A roughly square cairn, likely of Bronze Age date, possibly a funerary or ritual monument. Its location on a mountain summit suggests it may have had ceremonial or territorial significance.

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