What is recorded here

Carn is a passage tomb on Saggart Hill in County Dublin, Ireland, where a flat-topped cairn twenty-four metres across and one metre high still marks the remains of an ancient grave. It lies three hundred metres east-southeast of another passage tomb, suggesting the hill once held more than one chamber for the dead. People may have gathered there to honour ancestors, share food, or watch the sky above the stones. What is left is small, but it is not empty; it is the visible edge of a much older life.

Situate in a clearing on Saggart Hill. A passage tomb comprises of a flat-topped cairn (diam.24m; H 1m). It may be the denuded remains of a passage grave and lies c. 300m ESE of passage tomb (DU024-034----). (Price 1940, 123; Healy 1975, 1-19) Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 7 July 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 153/1940).

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3500–2500 BCE. Its location near another known passage tomb suggests it may have been part of a broader ritual landscape.

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