What is recorded here

Pile of Stones is a cairn, boundary cairn in Clogh, County Sligo, Ireland. It is one of eight cairns marking the Sligo-Leitrim boundary in mountainous terrain. The subcircular structure sits at the east apex of the Truskmore plateau and supports three small conical cairns.

Listed in the SMR (1989) and RMP (1995) and classified 'Cairn' in both. Not indicated on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is one of a series of eight cairns (SL006-043----; SL006-044----; SL006-047----; SL006-048----; SL006-049----; SL006-050----; SL006-051----; SL006-063----) which mark the boundary between counties Sligo and Leitrim in inhospitable mountainous terrain. Located at the E apex of the Truskmore plateau overlooking a lower plateau to SE. Subcircular cairn (dims. 9.3m N-S; 7.7m E-W; max. H 0.5m) with three small conical cairns built on it. Note: This is the same boundary cairn as LE003-026----. Compiled by Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 24 July 1994

A Bronze Age cairn; part of a cluster of funerary or ritual monuments. Its grouping with other cairns suggests a significant prehistoric landscape of burial or ceremonial use.

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