What is recorded here

Half-hidden in grass and overlooked by modern surveyors, the cairn has sat at the edge of a karstic terrace for longer than memory. It is small enough to be forgotten and high enough to command the Burren, a quiet marker where human hands first shaped the landscape into meaning.

At the NE edge of a karstic terrace on the NE slopes of Slievecarran with panoramic views over the Burren lowlands to the N and Turloughmore Mountain to the E. A small oval cairn (dims. 8m NE–SW; 5.4m W–E; H 0.5–1.15m) of loosely piled stones. The cairn rises to a relatively compact gently domed peak with broadly slumped sides spreading to a low encircling skirt of loose stones, partly sod-covered around the perimeter from N to E. The following images have been uploaded: CL006-137----_01.jpg View from upslope to W CL006-137----_02.jpg View from N CL006-137----_03.jpg View from SW CL006-137----_04.jpg View from S Revised by: Mary Tunney and Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of revision: 10 November 2021

A Bronze Age cairn; its location suggests a possible funerary or ritual function within a landscape of significant prehistoric activity.

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