What is recorded here
Cairn, a small low stone structure on a gentle west-facing slope in County Carlow, Ireland, stands 3.2 metres across and just 0.4 metres high, its form softened and hidden beneath peat. It belongs to a large group of similar cairns, suggesting a place where people marked time, loss, or belonging across generations. The stones may have guided footsteps, remembered the dead, or simply divided the land into meaning.
On a gentle W facing slope, a small low cairn (diam. 3.2m; H 0.4m), covered in peat. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 72) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: C17). One of a large group of cairns (see CW026-019----)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 04 November 2013
A Neolithic cairn; part of a widespread funerary tradition in Ireland. Its association with a larger group of cairns suggests a significant ritual or settlement landscape.
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- What survives
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