What is recorded here
Quigley's cairn or carn stands unlocated on Ballynure Fair Hill, a prehistoric megalthic tomb buried beneath grass and memory. The official record points to a centre but lacks a visible marker, suggesting the stones either vanished or never matched the human imagination that named them. Quigley may have been a local keeper, a thief, or a ghost who claimed the dead as his own. The hill holds both possibilities without resolving them.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MEGALITHIC TOMB: BALLYNURE FAIR HILL QUIGLEY'S CAIRN or CARN (unlocated). Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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