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CAIRNS: CARNINARD in Ballyboley

CAIRNS: CARNINARD

What is recorded here

Carninard is a Bronze Age cairn in Ballyboley, County Antrim. Stones may have been piled there to mark a dead person, a boundary, or a gift for the rain. The name still sounds like a small instruction: carry inward, remember the centre, return changed.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRNS: CARNINARD. Recorded period: BRONZE AGE; UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age cairn; its significance lies in contributing to the understanding of burial and ritual practices in early Irish prehistory.

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