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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified
Cairn
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Nine metres of small stones mark a forgotten boundary beside a standing stone in County Cork pasture. The cairn touches living limestone at its north edge, suggesting people built on rock rather than earth. Its unclassified status preserves more than measurement because the shape still resists a single explanation.
In pasture. A cairn (9m N-S; 5m E-W; H 0.6m), which comprises small stones, lies immediately N of a standing stone (CO105-062001-). According to Myler (1998, 27), there is a large flat stone lying at the E end and another large uprooted stone, lying in pieces '2 yards from the south-east corner of the cairn'. Limestone outcropping rock defines the limit of the cairn material at the N. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009
A Neolithic cairn, likely dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, associated with a standing stone; its alignment and positioning suggest ritual or funerary significance.

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