What is recorded here

Cairn stands on the summit of a high ridge in County Louth, a broad mound of earth and stone measuring fourteen metres across. Two or three buried chambers still show through its matrix, suggesting the mound was not a random heap but a careful container for the dead. Its position at the edge of a steep southern slope gives it a commanding view, perhaps chosen so the living could see the dead, or the dead could watch the living.

The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Siuated on summit of a high E-W ridge at edge of steep slope to S. Cairn of earth and stone (14m E-W, 12.5m N-S; H 0.9m). There are remains of two, possibly three, cists visible in the matrix of the mound (see also LH021-035001-, LH021-035002-, LH021-035003-).

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