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MEGALITHIC TOMB: BALLYNURE FAIR HILL QUIGLEY'S CAIRN or CARN (unlocated) in Ballybracken; Castletown

MEGALITHIC TOMB: BALLYNURE FAIR HILL QUIGLEY'S CAIRN or CARN (unlocated)

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.

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