What is recorded here

Carns is a low grass-covered cairn on a Clifden plateau edge, old enough to appear on nineteenth-century surveys yet never fully explained. It sits beside a cliff and open western views, the kind of place where people may have marked territory, mourned loss or simply watched the sky change. The stones remain half-hidden under pasture, inviting curiosity rather than certainty.

On a low rise near the SE edge of a semi-karst plateau with a cliff c. 35m to the SE and also commanding wide views over lower ground to the W. In rough pasture within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL010-064001-). One of two cairns hachured and named ‘Carns’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map (see CL010-064036- c. 60m to the SW). This low subcircular cairn (diam. 5-5.5m; H 0.6-1m) is covered in grass except on the N side where the cairn stones are visible. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 18 April 2023

A portal dolmen dating to the Early Neolithic period; it is significant as a rare surviving example of megalithic funerary architecture in the region.

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