What is recorded here

Carran, meaning the cairn, is a small Burren village where rocky pasture and old copper mines shape daily life. It is the birthplace of Michael Cusack, co-founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association, and its parish holds ruins tied to a story about Saint Columb founding an abbey. A hundred and six people lived there in 2011, beside a schoolhouse, pub and church near Slieve Carran, with Poulnabrone and disappearing lakes within eight kilometres.

Just NE of centre in a cashel (CL005-114002-). A cairn (7m WSW-ENE; 6m NE-SSW; H 0.7-0.8m). One large lintel lies on the SSW edge and a large whitethorn grows on the E edge. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 27 February 2023

A Neolithic cairn, likely a portal or passage tomb type, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its presence in a cashel suggests a possible later reuse or association with early medieval settlement.

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