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.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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