Cairn

Cairn, Ballyneillan is a flat-topped stone mound on the Termon plateau in County Clare, marked by five hollows on its surface and an unresolved argument about whether a burial chamber exists inside. Road work in 1874 and 1875 opened the mound and exposed what one account called a cist grave holding at least two sets of remains, while T. J. Westropp later denied that a cist was present. That contradiction still hangs over the stones: not a mistake to correct, but a voice kept alive beneath the plateau, waiting for someone to stop treating the dead as a fact that must fit one answer.