What is recorded here

Half a metre of stone on Piperstown Hill, the rest gone or never laid. What remains curves like a smile forgotten mid-sentence. People stood there in Bronze Age dusk, perhaps arguing about whose bones belonged inside. The missing quarter may have been taken, buried or simply never completed.

Situated on the S slopes of Piperstown Hill. A cairn known as its J. ‘Site J: A cairn of which only about three-quarters of the original appears to have survived. The northern portion is, at present, not visible and it may have been removed or, perhaps, was never constructed. It is crescentic in shape, about 4-75 m. by 3-50 m. in maximum E-W and N-S measurements respectively, and is about 20 cm. in maximum height. No evidence of a kerb.’ This is part of an extensive settlement and cemetery of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date (Rynne and Ó hEailidhe 1965, 66). Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 8 July 2018

A Neolithic cairn; partially surviving. Its location suggests it may be part of a broader prehistoric landscape associated with early burial or ritual practices in the region.

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