What is recorded here

Two small stone chambers still lie hidden beneath the Killycarney cairn in County Cavan, holding urns, flint and bone from before written memory. One chamber was lost before it could be properly known, but the second remains a quiet box of human making on the southern slope. They are not grand, yet they preserve the exact moment when someone shaped stone, fire and death into a place another person could return to.

Wakeman (1879, 183-200) discovered two cists within Killycarney cairn (CV002-030001-). The first, c. 1m by 0.74m internally and was divided into two compartments, and although destroyed before it was fully recorded, Wakeman noted an urn, stone chisel and worked bone at the site. A second cist (dims. 0.55m x 0.5m; H c. 0.12m) was discovered 7.3m from the latter and on the S slope of the cairn. Two flint objects and an urn were found within it. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

A Neolithic cist tomb, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, associated with early burial practices in the region. Its division into compartments suggests ritual or social differentiation in funerary customs.

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