What is recorded here

Piles of Stones is a cairn, boundary cairn in Cabragh (leyny By.),gortakeeran, County Sligo, Ireland. It stands on the upper bog-covered slopes of the Ox Mountains as the eighth most northerly of ten markers defining the Cabragh-Gortakeeran boundary. The post-1700 AD structure no longer has visible remains, and none of the ten markers appeared on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map.

On the upper bog-covered slopes of the Ox Mountains. This is the eighth most northerly of 10 cairns (see also: SL019-171001-; SL019-171002-; SL019-172----; SL025-147----; SL025-147001-; SL025-147002-; SL025-147003-; 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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