What is recorded here

Dun Hill in County Dublin is a natural knoll where a circular cairn was built on top of an older earthen mound. The 1843 map called the small stone chamber a post office signal post, though Westropp doubted that name. The chamber may have marked a boundary, a road or a local warning system, while the older mound beneath it pointed to burial or ceremony. The names changed, but the hill kept both purposes alive.

Located at the NW end of a natural knoll known as 'Dun Hill' which has been enclosed in antiquity (DU019-004002-). This is a circular denuded cairn (diam 14m; H 1.5m) which incorporates a cist-like structure (L 0.8m; W 0.89m; D 0.5m). The latter is indicated as 'post office signal post' on the 1843 edition of the OS 6-inch map and may not be original (Westropp 1922, 58-9). This cairn was apparently built on top of a low earthen mound thought to be a barrow (DU019-004003-). The headland was subject to gorse fire over the summer of 2013 revealing field walls to the southwest. The cist itself and the summit remained unburned. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Updated by: Christine Baker Date of upload: 29 January 2015

A circular denuded cairn with a cist-like structure, likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age; its location on a historically enclosed knoll suggests ritual or funerary significance.

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