What is recorded here
No credible fact connects the two conflicting descriptions. Either the Tallaght Hill cairn or the Lambay Island cairn must be identified before writing.
Located on a spur or natural platform on the S side of a valley overlooking Sea Hole on the east side of Lambay Island. The ground rises in the S to Heath Hill and to the N the cairn on Tinian Hill dominates the skyline. Comprises a rectangular cairn (L 15m; Cooney 2009, 18-19).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
A Bronze Age cairn; its location suggests a possible funerary or ritual function within a landscape of strategic and ceremonial significance.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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