What is recorded here

Moss holds the small stones of a compact oval cairn on the NE ridge brow, where a meandering field boundary passes beside it and views reach Gortaclare and Slievecarran. It may have marked grass, ownership or simply the shape of a place remembered by herds and people. Surveyors later used that same ridge point to measure distance, turning an old local landmark into a tool for mapping.

On the NE brow of a NE-SW ridge in upland rocky grazing with excellent views towards Gortaclare and Slievecarran to N and in all directions. A compact oval cairn of stones (5.5m NE-SW; 3.5m NW-SE; H 0.7m) aligned NE-SW reported to the National Monuments Service by Nick Geh. The stones are relatively small (0.15-0.3m) and the lower ones are moss-covered. The cairn sits along the line of a field boundary seen meandering to SW and NE (not contiguous to the cairn at either end) and was used as a trigonometrical point as shown on the OS 1st edition map. Other field boundaries associated with those above form an irregular field system across the ridge. A ring-cairn (CL010-183---) is on the SW end of the ridge. The following images have been uploaded: 1. CL006-161----_01.jpg From SW. Cairn on horizon with field wall meandering towards it. 2. CL006-161----_03.jpg From SE. Closer view. 3. CL006-161----_04.jpg Cairn from NW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 10 June 2019

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