What is recorded here

Millin Bay Cairn stands in Keentagh, County Down, a complex cairn dating to the Late Neolithic period when people first shaped that coast with stone and memory. It remains protected under State Care and Scheduled law, preserving the exact place where ancient hands stacked rock beside the bay. The stones may have marked a burial, a boundary, or a gift to the tide, but they still hold the shape of human attention given to that small stretch of seawater.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COMPLEX CAIRN: MILLIN BAY CAIRN. Recorded period: LATE NEO; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: State Care and Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Complex cairn, dating to the Late Neolithic period. It is a scheduled monument under state care, indicating its archaeological importance in the prehistoric landscape of Northern Ireland.

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