
What is recorded here
On the summit of Seefin Mountain. A cairn (LI056-032001-) lies 32m to the W. Not marked on historic OSi maps. National Museum of Ireland Field Monuments Files described the site as a ‘polygonal cist with encrusted urn and cremated bone found in 1941’. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 25 November 2021
Polygonal cist, likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its association with a cairn and an encrusted urn suggests funerary significance and links to early ceremonial burial practices in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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