What is recorded here

Piles of Stones is a cairn, boundary cairn in Cabragh (leyny By.),gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland. The most northerly of ten boundary markers, it sits on the upper bog-covered slopes of the Ox Mountains and likely dates from after 1700 AD. No remains are visible today, and none of the ten cairns appear on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map.

Listed in the SMR (1989) and the RMP (1995) and classified as 'Cairn Possible'. On the upper bog-covered slopes of the Ox Mountains. This is the most northerly of 10 cairns (see also: SL019-171002-; SL019-172----; SL025-147----; SL025-147001-; SL025-147002-; 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: 13 December 2011

A Bronze Age cairn; part of a cluster of cairns on the Ox Mountains, indicating prehistoric funerary or ritual activity in the region.

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