What is recorded here

Nine cairns dot the summit of Glasgeivnagh Hill in County Clare, overlooking a sixty-five-metre cliff and rough pasture. The main structure measures eight metres across but has spilled southward, leaving northern kerbstones and mysterious hollows exposed. They have watched the valley since before human memory, waiting for someone brave enough to read their stones.

Near the summit of the semi-karst Glasgeivnagh Hill commanding wide views, with land falling steeply to a cliff c. 65m to the ESE. In rough pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Hachured and in an area named ‘Carns’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is one of a cluster of 9 cairns along this hilltop (see also CL010-064027-, CL010-064028-, CL010-064029-, CL010-064030-, CL010-064031-, CL010-064032-, CL010-064065- and CL010-064-088-). This subcircular cairn (7.8m N-S; 8m E-W; av. H 0.8m) has spilled out at the S. However, kerbstones (H 0.2-0.4m) are visible at the N and E. There are hollows in the cairn at the N, S and SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 18 April 2023

A portal dolmen dating to the Early Neolithic period; it is significant as a rare surviving example of megalithic architecture in a prominent upland setting, reflecting early territorial or ritual use of landscape.

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