What is recorded here

Creeve townland in County Longford once held a small cairn twenty-four feet across and four feet high, topped by a three-foot pillar stone that still defies easy classification. The chamber has vanished or hidden itself from modern eyes, leaving behind a ghost of shape rather than a visible ruin. Yet the measurements preserve more than bare numbers; they sketch a place where people gathered, marked time or honoured the dead before the land forgot the name of the ceremony.

Dr Keenan, in his notes on county Longford, refers to ‘a small Carn 24 feet [7.3m] in diameter and 4 feet [1.2m] high with a pillar stone 3 feet [0.9m] high on top of it’ in Creeve townland (Devaney 1981, 97). Neither the cairn (LF014-127----) nor possible standing stone were located. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 14 November 2011

Likely dating to the Bronze Age, the standing stone may have been part of a ritual or funerary monument. Such stones often held symbolic or ceremonial significance, possibly linked to territorial markers or ancestor veneration.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.