What is recorded here

Half-buried in grass on a Clare ridge, the cairn still holds its shape: a broad shallow disc braced by a kerb of stones that reappear along the edge like a sentence repeating itself. Later hands may have dumped field stones across its top, yet the older circle remained visible enough to mark, avoid or remember. A hut site waits thirty metres away, suggesting people lived close enough to watch the sky from beside it rather than from inside it.

On a slight rise at the base of a S-facing slope, c. 20m to the E of a N-S running road; within a field system (CL009-059001-). A circular grass-covered cairn (base dims. 15.5m N-S; 15.4m E-W; H. 1.4-1.6m); a spread of moss-covered stones on top of it appears to be field-clearance material (diam. 4.7m-6m) that was subsequently added. The cairn was retained by a kerb (11.8m N-S; 10.8m E-W) and a number of kerbstones, visible c. 2m from its outer limits, protrude intermittently from the grass cover between NW and ENE, and particularly between SE and SW where a line of eight or nine stones is visible. A large stone (dims. L 1.2m; Wth 0.9m; H 0.9m) projects from the base at W and three others stones project from it between NE and ESE. A number of old grassed-over field walls extend off the cairn at W and N and some clearance cairns are visible in its vicinity. A hut site (CL016-020034-) is located c. 30m to the SSE. The following image has been uploaded: CL016-020033-_01.jpg View from E Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 22 April 2022

A circular Neolithic cairn; significance not specifically recorded.

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