What is recorded here
Lackagh holds four cairns in one field, but this is the first marked point on the official map. They date from the uncertain prehistoric time when people still threw stones at the sky instead of asking permission. The first cairn may have been a border, a gift, a warning, or a joke aimed at God. The other three waited behind it like patients in a queue.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CAIRN (1 of 4 in same field). Recorded period: UNCERTAIN; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
A Neolithic cairn; part of a small group of prehistoric funerary monuments. Its scheduling indicates archaeological importance, though specific details on construction or wider context remain uncertain.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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