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TWO CAIRNS in Knockoneill

TWO CAIRNS

What is recorded here

Two cairns still stand in Knockoneill, County Derry, though no human hand is certain when they were raised. They are not a palace, a road or a field boundary; they are a marker, a memorial or a message thrown upward against forgetting. That much difference matters. Stone stacked once may have directed a route, honoured a dead person or answered another stack farther away. The uncertainty does not weaken the place, it completes it.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as TWO CAIRNS. Recorded period: UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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Recorded monument

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