What is recorded here

Carn is a grass-covered oval cairn beside Caherwalsh cashel in County Clare, Ireland. It measures nine metres long, six metres wide and less than a metre high, with a flat top and a large stone protruding near one edge. People may have cleared the field around that stone, built a boundary marker or left a burial place. The cashel wall and a smaller enclosure now touch or cover part of it, so the cairn has become a layer beneath later life rather than a separate monument.

On a plateau, in pasture within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-059001-), and c. 8m outside the SE side of Caherwalsh cashel (CL009-059045-). Named ‘Carn’ on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1900-02, 426) mentions ‘a carn and hut-sites’ (CL009-059044-) near Caherwalsh. A grass-covered oval cairn (9m N-S; 6.2m E-W; H 0.4-0.6m) with a flat top (diam. c. 2-2.7m). A large stone (L 1.85m; Wth 0.6; T 0.2m; H 0.6m) aligned N-S protrudes from near the W edge of the cairn and may be naturally placed. The cairn may represent field clearance, accumulating around this stone. A small enclosure (CL009-059124-) abutting the external cashel wall overlies and partly obscures the N side of the cairn. The following image has been uploaded: CL009-059043-_01.jpg View of cairn from SSW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 9 February 2022

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its association with a cashel and multiperiod field system suggests long-term ritual or territorial significance in the Burren landscape.

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