What is recorded here

Carn is a broad grass-covered circle at the highest point in Cappaghkennedy, marked on maps since 1842 and surrounded by old field boundaries. Its slight central hollow may have held a survey instrument, while scattered flagstones and two neighbouring cairns suggest the ridge has long served as a visible gathering place. Standing there, the wide north-west and north-east views make the stone work feel less like a dead ruin and more like a local landmark people could still find, judge and remember.

At the highest point (OD 782’) in Cappaghkennedy, in rough pasture, with wide views out to the NW and NE and within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). Indicated and labelled ‘Carn’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. This grass-covered circular cairn (diam. c. 10m; H 1.2-1.6m) has a slight hollow (0.4m) at the top which is the likely former location of a trigonometrical station also shown on the OS 6-inch mapping. Large and medium sized flagstones are scattered on S side of the cairn. There is a second cairn (CL010-030----) c. 110m to the NW, and a third (CL010-029----) c. 165m to the W. Compiled by Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 8 February 2023

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE. Its location on a prominent hilltop suggests ritual or ceremonial significance, typical of Neolithic funerary and ceremonial sites in the region.

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