What is recorded here

Thomas Westropp marked the grassy mound on his map before modern surveys confirmed what herds and weather had already shaped. It stands ten metres across on a Clare rise, shallow enough for a child to climb yet old enough to hold two faint hollows like forgotten cups. A second cairn waits thirty-five metres south, suggesting a line of markers rather than a lonely heap. The field wall still leaves the west edge unbroken, as if the mound refused to be fenced or forgotten.

On a prominent rise in rough pasture. Marked by Thomas Westropp on his copy of the OS 6-inch map, and also on a Geological Survey of Ireland map. Listed as ‘Tumulus’ in the RMP (1996). This grass-covered subcircular cairn (10m E-W; 9m N-S; H 1-1.3m) has two slight hollows in it. A grass-covered field wall can be seen in satellite imagery (Aerial Premium 2013-2018) extending NW from the W edge of the cairn. A roadside wall runs NNE-SSW along the E edge of the cairn. Another cairn (CL010-097001-) lies c. 35m to the SSW, and there is another (CL010-097003-) c. 77m to the SW. Compiled by: Conn Herriott and Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 15 May 2023

A Neolithic cairn; significance relates to its possible funerary or ritual function typical of early farming communities in the Burren region.

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