What is recorded here
Clear water flows through a narrow gap in the rocks, feeding a basins where people drank and washed. The chamber is a cave mouth, roofed and shadowed, with a door that opens onto the rock face. The chamber is a cave mouth, roofed and shadowed, with a door that opens onto the rock face.
Situated on the S slopes of Piperstown Hill. A cairn known as Site C. ‘Site C: A roughly circular cairn of stones. It averages about 5-50 m. in overall diameter and is about 40 cm. in maximum height. The tops of large, vertically set stones can be seen in the southern half of the cairn and are probably kerbstones. Somewhat similar stones are visible in the north-eastern quarter, but these are less obvious kerbstones. The internal diameter of the kerb would be about 3.50m’ (Rynne and Ó hEailidhe 1965, 63-4). This was considered by Rynne and Ó hÉailidhe (1965, 79) to be a possible burial cairn. This is part of an extensive settlement and cemetery of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date .
Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 8 July 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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