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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

What is recorded here

Cairn is a circular stone ring, six metres wide and one and a half metres high, buried under years of grass and forgotten thought in County Carlow. It may have marked a boundary, a burial or a promise, but the stones no longer speak clearly. They only resist forgetting, holding their shape against the land’s tendency to erase what humans touched.
A circular cairn (diam. c. 6m; H c. 1.6m) heavily overgrown. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 82) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: C36). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 11 November 2013
A circular cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age; its significance remains locally constrained with no specific cultural or funerary details recorded.

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