What is recorded here

Castle Pierce is a thirty-metre stone ring in County Laois, high enough to block the horizon but bare of the kerb that usually marks such places. Two shallow depressions at its north-east edge hint at buried chambers, waiting for someone brave enough to ask what they held. The stones have stood through every human life forgotten beneath them, patient as the field they occupy.

An almost circular cairn (max. diam. c. 30.7m N-S; H 3m). Two depressions at NE may represent possible cists. No kerb visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

A Neolithic cairn; likely dates to the Early to Middle Bronze Age. Its significance lies in representing a type of funerary monument common in the Irish landscape, reflecting early communal burial practices.

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