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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

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Three stone rings scatter across the overgrown ridge like forgotten coins, their limestone and sandstone edges worn smooth by centuries of rain. They face Mangerton Mountain, silent witnesses to herds long gone and skies unchanged. The largest ring measures twenty-three palms across, low enough to sit inside yet tall enough to mark boundaries no longer drawn. Together they suggest a place where people gathered, not to build grandeur but to remember the shape of the land itself.
In a heavily overgrown area of rough pasture on the S-facing slopes of a ridge, with views S to Mangerton Mountain. A roughly circular cairn (diam. 2.3m; H 0.6m) of both limestone and sandstone stones of assorted sizes. Another cairn (KE067-119003-) is c. 4m to the SSE and another (KE067-119004-) is c. 8m to the W. (O'Donnell 2001; O'Donnell 2003) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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