What is recorded here

Pile of Stones is a cairn (unclassified) in Bohernagore West, graigue (tullaghortan Par.), County Tipperary, Ireland. The flat-topped structure on Sugarloaf Hill measures about 20 metres across and 2 metres high, using old red sandstone within natural rock outcrop. Its central depression holds up to five flat slabs and upright stones forming a possible L-shaped setting in the south-east sector. Modern disturbance appears in two northern and southern stacks, with the northern stack showing drystone walling on its downslope face.

On Sugarloaf Hill in the Knockmealdown Mountain range. A roughly flat-topped cairn (diam. c. 20m; H c. 2m) of old red sandstone in an area of natural rock outcrop. There is a central depression, in which there are up to five flat slabs, with further upright slabs forming a possible L-shaped setting in the SE sector of the depression. There is evidence of modern disturbance in the form of cairn material having been re-arranged to form two stacks to the N and S, that to N has drystone walling on the downslope/N face. Immediately E of the cairn an area has been cleared. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Neolithic cairn; dates to the early to middle Neolithic period (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Its location within a prominent landscape and association with natural rock outcrops suggest ritual or funerary significance, typical of Neolithic burial and ceremonial sites in the region.

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