What is recorded here

Cairn is one of six granite mounds scattered across County Carlow, yet peat has smothered it until only a low circular shadow remains. It stood as an outlier to the main group, perhaps marking a boundary or a forgotten path before the bog swallowed the landscape. The stones still hold their shape beneath the soil, waiting for rain or curiosity to reveal them again.

A circular cairn (diam. c. 4.05m; H c. 0.8m) of granite stones almost completely covered in peat. Recorded by Ó Murchú (2011, 67) as part of a Master's thesis (Survey number: C07). Ó Murchú (2011, 67) refers to this as an outlier of a cairnfield made up of six cairns (CW026-053----, CW026-054----, CW026-055----, CW026-056----, CW026-057---- and CW026-058----). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 30 October 2013

A circular cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age; its small size and construction suggest it may be a funerary or ritual monument. Due to its partial preservation and lack of excavation, its wider archaeological significance remains unclear.

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