What is recorded here

Pile is a circular stone tower on a high ridge where Offaly and Laois touch, built in the nineteenth century to mark the county line and serve as a trigonometrical station. Its overlapping stones rise like a small fortress against the sky, while lesser piles to the north and south repeat the border across open ground. From the top, the land turns into a wide map of fields, woods and distant hills, making the artificial line both obvious and absurd.

Situated on top of a mountain with good views in all directions. Irregular shaped stone cairn consisting of a circular tower built of overlapping stones which appears to have been constructed in the 19th century as a county boundary marker by the OS. This monument marks the border between Offaly and Laois and is used as a Trigonometrical station to mark a bench mark. Piles of stones resembling small cairns to the N and S also mark the line of the county boundary.

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