What is recorded here

Scotch Island, a small landmass trapped inside the marshy bay of Trinity Island in Lough Oughter, holds a circular cairn of small stones. Davies measured the structure at forty feet across and five feet high in 1942, noting it rose clearly above the wet ground before becoming much overgrown. The stones still mark a deliberate human act on a remote island, waiting for someone to walk the muddy shore and discover what they intended others to remember.

Davies (ITA Survey 1942) recorded 'a circular cairn of small stones 40 ft. across and rising 5 ft. above the marsh; clearly artificial. Much overgrown.' If the site location co-ordinates given by Davies are correct, the site is situated on the E shore of 'Scotch Island' in Lough Oughter, a small island in the marshy bay of the much larger Trinity Island. Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

A Neolithic cairn; likely dates to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Its construction reflects early communal burial or ritual practices in the region.

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