What is recorded here
Mnemo is an edge in the dark, not a chamber. The edge may be a measurement marker, a boundary tick or a visible point on an unseen circle. An unseen circle can still be real. This is a round cairn in Sheehinny, County Fermanagh, Ireland, recorded as prehistoric. Stones may have marked a place where people watched the sky, buried someone or measured the land. The exact point is known even when the shape is not.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ROUND CAIRN (unlocated). Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Round cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age. These monuments are significant as they reflect early funerary and ritual practices in the prehistoric landscape.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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