What is recorded here

Cairn is an unclassified stone stack, yet it stands beside others on a NW facing slope in County Carlow. Large boulders form a circle about five metres across and one metre high. A group of similar cairns occupies the land, suggesting repeated human attention rather than a solitary act. People may have marked a boundary, honoured a loss or simply arranged stones because the slope invited it. The purpose has faded, but the shape remains clear enough to touch.

On a NW facing slope, a large cairn (diam. c. 5m; H c. 1m) composed of relatively large boulders. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 76) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: C25). One of a large group of cairns (see CW026-019----). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 08 November 2013

A Neolithic cairn; part of a wider group of funerary or ritual monuments. Its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of early prehistoric settlement and burial practices in the region.

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