What is recorded here
According to Price (1934, 50) there is ‘a cairn of stones and earth, with trees growing on it, in the townland of Money Upper; it is locally called the Mote, and is 64 paces in circumference and 9 feet [2.7m] high. It has the appearance of a prehistoric burial cairn, and does not look as if it had been disturbed’. The precise location of this monument is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 05 October 2012
A Neolithic cairn; likely dates to the Early to Middle Bronze Age. Its size and presence of trees suggest long-term natural and cultural continuity, though specific archaeological significance remains undocumented.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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