What is recorded here

Carn is an oval cairn on a southern slope above the Kilcorney Valley, marked on the 1920 map and surrounded by a rare concentration of similar stones. Its flat, worn shape and nearby quarry holes suggest people took stones from it or built with them repeatedly across centuries. The valley below may have held herds, fields or memory, while the cairn remained a visible point for finding direction or returning after absence.

On a rise in a S-facing slope at the edge of a plateau, overlooking the W end of the Kilcorney Valley, in an area of rough pasture and hazel cover, and within a multiperiod field system (CL009-255---). Labelled ‘Carn’ on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. An oval cairn (diams. 11.8m E–W; 9m N–S; H 0.4–1.3m), the N edge of which is indistinct. There are two quarry holes adjacent to the cairn; one to the W (dims. 3.4m N–S; 2.4m E–W) and a second to the E (diam. c. 2m). As well as a wedge tomb (CL009-020001-) c. 50 to N, there are two cairns nearby: one (CL009-145003-) lies c. 160m to ENE and another (CL009-145----) c. 160m to NE. These is a pronounced concentration of cairns in the area, as noted by Westropp (1899, 370) and Grant (2010, 46). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 30-9-2025

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE. Its location within a multiperiod landscape suggests long-term ritual or territorial significance in the prehistoric settlement pattern of the region.

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