What is recorded here

Piles of Stones is a cairn, boundary cairn in Cabragh (leyny By.),gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland. It ranks fifth from the north among ten markers separating Cabragh and Gortakeeran across the upper bog-covered slopes of the Ox Mountains. The cluster appears nowhere on the 1837 OS 6-inch map, and no stones from this probable post-1700 structure remain visible.

On the upper bog-covered slopes of the Ox Mountains. This is the fifth most northerly of 10 cairns (see also: SL019-171001-; SL019-171002-; SL019-172----; SL025-147----; 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: 11 January 2012

A Bronze Age cairn; part of a cluster of funerary monuments in a remote upland setting, reflecting early ritual practices in the Ox Mountains region.

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