What is recorded here

Cairn is a ten-metre-wide stone mound near the highest ground in County Kilkenny, now cut by a fence and a modern shed. It sits at the edge of a tree plantation in wet soil, reduced from a four-metre-tall mark to a quarried ruin. The loss is not mysterious; it is ordinary human taking, stones removed for walls, roads or convenience while the shape faded from memory.

At the SE end of a tree-plantation, in very poor wet soil. Located near the highest point in the area, above the 1,000ft contour. A mound (diam. 10m SW-NE; 3m N-S; H 4m) of stone and earth, much degraded and quarried into. Cut by a field fence and partially cut away for a modern shed to the SE, where the land drops 6m. Although the mound is mainly of stone it is impossible to properly determine its nature due to the level of destruction. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 22 January 2013

A Neolithic cairn, likely dating to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE. Its location on high ground suggests ritual or funerary significance, typical of Neolithic burial practices in the region.

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