What is recorded here
Located on the highest point of the Killadore/Devlin Hills, with panoramic views, particularly along the coastline. This stone cairn (diam. 6m; max H 0.60m) is low, broadly slumped and partly sod-covered. On the S edge there is a possible kerb stone (L 1.1m; T 0.1cm; H 0.30cm), but no evidence of a kerb is visible elsewhere around the circuit. The cairn is topped with a smaller, recent stone pile (diam. 2m; H 1m) which serves as an OS trigonometrical point.
Compiled by: Jane O’ Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 24 October 2017
A Neolithic stone cairn, likely dating to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Its location on a prominent hill suggests it may have had ritual or funerary significance, common for such monuments in the Irish landscape.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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