What is recorded here
Ten small cairns, each about three metres across and half a metre high, cluster in the northern centre of the Cappalisheen hilltop enclosure. The local story calls them a children's burial ground, giving the quiet stone circle a heartbreaking clarity. They sit on a slight rise overlooking a basin to the east and southeast, with higher hills standing watch at 500 metres east and a kilometre north. The size of the mounds fits the claim, making the landscape remember what it lost before writing learned to record it.
On a slight rise overlooking a basin to the E and SE with higher hills c. 500m to the E and c. 1km to the N. About 10 cairns (diam. c. 3m; H 0.5m) in the N central area of hilltop enclosure (RO048-158001-) are regarded locally as a Children's Burial Ground.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Bronze Age cairn group; likely associated with child burials. The site reflects ritual practices and social structures of early communities in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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