What is recorded here

No credible fact exists about Cairn. The claim may be clever, but it is not true.

Price (1940, 150) describes a cairn located near the top of the ridge at Kiltalown which was removed in 1848. Within it was a burial chamber containing a skeleton and a food vessel. According to Handcock (1991, 150, 3rd. ed. ) this was a highly decorated bowl with vertical, horizontal and wavy lines. There was also a fragment of another urn with impressed cord-markings. This vessel is held in the National Museum.

A Neolithic cairn; dates to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Its significance lies in the presence of a burial chamber with human remains and a food vessel, indicating ritual funerary practices of the time.

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