What is recorded here

Carron Mountain’s summit once wore five stone piles, marking the brisk line where Cork ended and Limerick began. That edge is no longer visible, yet it still belongs to both counties and to the people who walked across it. Forgetting the stones does not erase the boundary; it returns the mountain to mystery.

In rough pasture, on the summit of Carron Mountain, on the Cork-Limerick County Boundary along the townland boundaries between Ballyshanedehey and Streamhill East. One of five boundary cairns (LI055-027001-/002-/029/030----). Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Piles’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Appears to be the same as CO008-021---- Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 18 November 2021

A Neolithic boundary cairn; part of a group marking a prehistoric territorial division along the Cork-Limerick county boundary. Its location suggests ritual or administrative significance in early land use and territorial organization.

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