What is recorded here

Cairn is a long low chamber in County Carrow, built with angled granite slabs and five quartz stones still breathing through the peat. It lies at the foot of a NW slope, pointing NE-SW like a finger laid across the land. People may have set stones there to mark the dead, to catch light, or simply to give the hill a shape they could remember. Whatever the intent, the chamber still holds its line, quiet and deliberate beneath the grass.

At the base of a NW facing slope, a long low cairn (L c. 4m; Wth c. 1.6m; H c. 0.5m) with long axis orientated NE-SW. The main body is made up of granite slabs set at an angle in two parallel lines with the gap in between filled with stones. Five large quartz stones protrude from peat at the SE. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 69) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: C11). One of a large group of cairns (see CW026-019----). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 30 October 2013

Neolithic long cairn, dating to the 4th–3rd millennia BCE. Its construction using angled granite slabs suggests a regional variation in megalithic building traditions.

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