What is recorded here

Half a kilometre south of Sacks Glen, a broad mound of earth and stone still marks the junction of three townlands on Tallaght Hill. It is no longer a proud cairn: a forest road cut through its northern base, a drainage channel scars its body, and a shooting hide sits upon it. Yet the boundary point remains, and the mound still occupies the exact role given it generations before records began. What is left is enough to show that the hill was never empty, even when men stopped remembering why they built there.

The OS Letters for County Dublin (1837) include a sketch map of the Shankill area showing mounds and cairns on the N and E slopes of Carrigollogan (O'Flanagan 1927, opp.13). This cairn has not been precisely located. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.

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