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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

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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