What is recorded here

Cappanawalla hill in County Clare still holds two stone cairns set along the missing line of an old hillfort bank. People broke the continuous rampart and rebuilt its material into marker stones, leaving a pale limestone pedestal beneath the first cairn. The second waits three hundred and fifty metres east, echoing the same deliberate interruption across the upper terraces.

In limestone pavement on the S-facing upper terraces of Cappanawalla hill. One of two cairns placed along the line of the enclosing bank of hillfort (CL002-076001-). This cairn (c. 7.5m N-S; c. 7m E-W) is placed slightly to the S of the line of the hillfort bank. Detailed topographic survey of the monument by Grant (2008, 79) determined that the bank material stops short of the cairn, but an obvious limestone pedestal continues along the line of the banks, implying that the bank was originally continuous and that its material was reused to construct the cairn at a later date, interrupting the line of the bank but leaving behind a limestone pedestal. A second cairn (CL002-076002-) is placed along the line of the hillfort bank c. 350m to the E. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 14 October 2025

A Bronze Age cairn, likely associated with a hillfort; its placement suggests a ritual or territorial significance.

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