What is recorded here

Cairn is a cairn, unclassified in Moneygold, County Sligo, Ireland. It occupies a slight west-facing slope near the summit of a northeast-southwest ridge, forming a semi-circular raised area eight metres long and five metres wide. A low scarp of small rubble limestone encloses the site, while a straight field wall defines its southeast edge. Another similar cairn stands ten metres to the southwest.

Situated on a slight W-facing slope, just off the summit of NE-SW orientated ridge, in pasture. A similar cairn (SL 005-146----) is located 10m SW. Roughly semi-circular raised area (dims. 8m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE) enclosed by a scarp (ext. H 0.4m) of small rubble limestone. The cairn lies at the base of a straight NE-SW orientated field wall that defines the SE side. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 21 April 2011

A Neolithic cairn; its proximity to a similar cairn suggests a possible ritual or funerary landscape.

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