What is recorded here

Half a mile west of the last living farm, a low ridge holds the only remaining stone pile from the Ordinance Survey boundary work. The surveyors threw rocks across the county line and left them there, trusting weight and distance to keep doing the job long after men forgot the names. Most of the other piles have vanished into fields or memory, but this one still sits on the grass like a sentence someone finished and never erased.

Situated on a broad E-W ridge. It is marked only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in italic lettering as a 'Pile of stones' marking the boundary with County Cavan. This is one of about six cairns or mounds in this area erected by the Ordinance Survey, and very few of them are left. It is the same as (CV005-020----). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 December 2016

A portal dolmen; likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. It represents a boundary marker and ceremonial monument associated with early territorial divisions in the region.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.