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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

What is recorded here

Cairn is one of six granite stones on the top terrace of Dranagh mountain in County Carlow. The others are scattered nearby, forming a small field of markers rather than a single grand monument. They have sat through weather and forgetting, waiting for someone to walk the ridge and notice the pattern.
On the top terrace of the Dranagh mountain, a low circular cairn (diam. 2.5m; H c. 0.4m) of granite stones. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 66) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: C04). One of six cairns (see also CW026-053----, CW026-054----, CW026-055----, CW026-057---- and CW026-058----) which form a cairnfield. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 30 October 2013
A Bronze Age funerary cairn; part of a small local group of cairns indicating prehistoric settlement and ritual activity in the Dranagh mountain area.

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