What is recorded here

Carn is a lost Monaghan cairn whose name still marks the townland, preserving a boundary or burial that human hands have already erased. The oval mound sat on a drumlin with a sunken centre, suggesting an old chamber had collapsed or been opened before the stones disappeared entirely. It is a quiet tragedy of memory: the place remains while the thing that gave it meaning has returned to ordinary earth.

Located on a rise towards the bottom of a NW-facing slope. It is depicted only o the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘Carn’. This is an oval slightly raised grass and scrub-covered stony area (dims 16m E-W; 12m N-S: max. H 1m) with a large boulder (dims 1m x 0.7m) at the E edge. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 03 August 2011

Neolithic passage tomb; significant as a rare surviving example of an early megalithic structure in the region, though its precise date and function remain poorly understood due to limited archaeological investigation.

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