What is recorded here

Cairn is a small grass-covered stone mound in County Clare, Ireland, holding a shallow rectangular depression where two tiny stones still stand. It sits beside an old field wall and near a wedge tomb, suggesting people shaped the land repeatedly across generations. The depression may have marked a burial, a boundary or a place of remembrance, while the surrounding fields prove the area remained alive long after the stones were set.

On a level area of rough patchy grazing and bare-rock pavement, within an extensive field system (CL005-160001-). The ground falls away moderately steeply to SE. Listed as ‘burial mound’ in the RMP (1997). A small low subcircular grass and moss-covered cairn of small stones (8m N–S; 7.4m E–W; max. H 0.5m) with a rectangular depression at its centre (2m N–S; 0.9m E–W; D 0.2m). There are two small stones (L 0.4m; Wth 0.1m; H 0.2m) set in the E side of the depression. These appear to be too small to be part of a cist or megalith and may be the remains of an internal revetment. A NW-SE mound wall lies c. 60m to the SW and a wedge tomb (CL006-035003-) is clearly visible c. 350m to the W. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 29 September 2021

A Neolithic cairn; its significance lies in its potential as a burial monument and its association with early field systems in the region.

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