What is recorded here

Cairn is a 228-acre townland in County Cavan where a prehistoric megalithic structure still stands beside Carn Lough and a wood. The McKiernan Clan held the land from medieval times until 1610, when King James VI and I granted portions to Scottish officials, triggering a brief wave of mill building, forge work and armed settlement before leases returned to local hands. The place has changed names and owners repeatedly, yet the stones, water and lanes have continued to mark it as a living boundary rather than a forgotten dot.

Located at the crest of a SE-facing slope c. 80m SE of a triangulation point. This is a circular sod and furze-covered and flat-topped cairn (diam. of base 12m; diam. of top 7m; H c. 1m) with a small but fresh quarry on the summit. Recorded by Edmond O’Donovan. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 February 2023

A Bronze Age cairn, likely a funerary monument, indicating early settlement and ritual activity in the area; its quarry suggests local stone was used in construction.

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