What is recorded here

Cairn is a circular stone ring, about four metres across and half a metre high, buried in peat and heather in County Carlow. It belongs to a large group of similar cairns, suggesting people marked that landscape repeatedly rather than building one lonely monument. The stones may have guided travellers, honoured the dead, or simply claimed a place on the horizon. Time has done what it does everywhere, pulling the work back under soil and waiting for someone to remember it.

A circular cairn (diam. C. 4m; H c. 0.55m) covered in peat and overgrown with heather. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 76) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: C24). One of a large group of cairns (see CW026-019----). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 06 November 2013

A Neolithic cairn; part of a widespread funerary and ritual tradition in early Irish prehistory. Its association with a larger group of cairns suggests a regional ceremonial landscape.

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