What is recorded here
Pile of Stones is a cairn, boundary cairn in Cabragh (leyny By.),gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland. It is the sixth most northerly of ten cairns marking a long linear length of the townland boundary between Cabragh and Gortakeeran on the upper bog-covered slopes of the Ox Mountains. The cairn probably dates from after 1700 AD, but no remains are now visible and none of the ten appeared on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map.
On the upper bog-covered slopes of the Ox Mountains. This is the sixth most northerly of 10 cairns (see also: SL019-171001-; SL019-171002-; SL019-172----; SL025-147----; SL025-147001-; SL025-147003-; SL025-147004-; SL025-147005-; SL025-147006-) that mark a long linear length of the townland boundary between Cabragh and Gortakeeran. None of the ten are marked of the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. There are no remains of this cairn, in all probability post-1700 AD in date, now visible.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
A Bronze Age cairn; part of a cluster of cairns in the Ox Mountains, indicating prehistoric funerary or ritual activity in the region.
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