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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified
Cairn
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Cairn is a cairn (unclassified) in Ballybrennock, County Waterford, Ireland. Power recorded the local name an bréagán for a hill carrying a stone pile that represented a man. The site probably held a drystone built cairn, although the knoll is occupied by modern-looking clearance cairns.
According to Power (1908, 189) a place called 'an bréagán' at Ballybrennock was a hill with a stone pile representing a man. This was probably a drystone built cairn, but the knoll is now occupied by a number of modern-looking clearance cairns. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload/revision: 16th May 2011.

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