What is recorded here

Carran is the rocky birthplace of Michael Cusack, the man who helped found the Gaelic Athletic Association. It sits above the Burren, where ancient churches, copper mines and a small village share one hard landscape. The name itself means the cairn, as if the place still points toward what people buried, marked or remembered there.

On a gentle S-facing slope on the Burren plateau, within a multiperiod field system (CL009-013001-), with a shallow NE–SW ravine c. 75m to the NW. A small grass-covered cairn (6.5m N–S; 5.2m E–W; H 0.5–0.8m) with a quite flat top (diam. c. 2m). No structural stones are visible. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 26 October 2021

A Neolithic cairn, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE; its location within a multiperiod field system suggests long-term land use and ritual activity in the Burren.

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