What is recorded here
Cairn is a five-and-a-half-metre granite disc in County Carlow, still wearing grass, burnt heather and small fir bushes like a forgotten altar. It belongs to a large group of similar marks, suggesting the land once spoke through repeated stone rather than a single grand claim. People may have gathered there to measure distance, honour the dead or simply watch the sky tilt over the ridge.
A circular cairn (diam. 5.5m; H c. 0.65m) composed of granite stones and overgrown with grass, burnt heather and small fir bushes. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 79) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: C31). One of a large group of cairns (see CW026-019----).
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 11 November 2013
A Neolithic cairn; likely dates to the Early to Middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Its construction and location suggest it may be a funerary or ritual monument, though its specific function remains undetermined due to lack of excavation.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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