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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

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Cairn is a cairn (unclassified) in Knockaderry Lower, Knockaderry Upper, County Waterford, Ireland. Ryland's 1824 account records the discovery of a burial within a stone cist beneath the cairn. The exact location of that cist and cairn remains unknown.
Ryland (1824, 267) describes the discovery of a burial within a stone cist (WA016-094----) beneath a cairn in the Knockaderry area. It remains unlocated. Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload/revision: 21st December 2010.
A Neolithic stone cairn with a burial in a stone cist, dating to approximately 4000–2500 BCE. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early funerary practices and burial customs in the Knockaderry area.

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