What is recorded here

Achill Island is a long thin ribbon of rock pulled west into the Atlantic, and the cairn sits on its lower slope like a forgotten sentence. The stones are not large enough to admire from a distance, but they are large enough to handle, to move, to remember. A person may have stacked them after storms, marked a boundary, buried a name or simply answered the shape of the land. The heather has since taken back the edges, leaving only the central hollow visible, as if the mountain were keeping the larger part of the story to itself.

In rough, heather-covered upland bog, located on the lower SW-facing slope of a high ridge in NW of Achill Island. There is an area of worked bog c. 60m to S. This consists of a loose, oval heap of medium and large-sized stones (3m N−S; 2m E−W; H c. 0.5m), with a shallow central depression. The perimeter is submerged in heather, and the central hollow is grass-grown. There a possible enclosure (MA042-049002-) 1.8m to N. Image: MA042-049001_01.jpg: Cairn viewed from S. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 July 2017

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