What is recorded here

Carn is a broad, flat-topped stone mound in County Clare, large enough to walk across and old enough to predate the field boundaries still clinging to its edges. It sits on grassed limestone beside a shallow ravine, with two hut sites within fifteen metres, suggesting people lived close enough to touch the stones daily. The cairn may have marked a boundary, a burial, or a place for gathering, but its size and position imply it mattered to whoever built it.

On level ground in an area of grassed-over karst limestone, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-); there is a shallow N-S ravine c. 40m to the W. Hachured and labelled ‘Carn’ on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This large subcircular cairn (base 17.8m N-S; 16m E-W; top 4.4m E-W; 3m N-S; H. 2.2-2.4m) is quite flat topped. Intermittent kerbstones are visible, particularly from SW to NW. On the top of it, moss-covered stones may have been added more recently. Broad low grass-covered ridges extending from it at NW (L 5m) and ESE (L 10m) appear to be old field boundaries. Another cairn (CL009-059061-) lies c. 62m to the NE. Hut sites (CL009-059118- and CL009-059119-) lie c. 10m to the N and c. 13m to the NNE respectively. The following image has been uploaded: CL009-059060-_01 View from ESE Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 4 April 2022

A portal dolmen; likely constructed during the Neolithic period. Its location within a multiperiod landscape highlights its potential significance in early agricultural and ritual practices in the Burren region.

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