What is recorded here

Carn is a passage tomb on Saggart Hill in County Dublin, where a broad stone chamber still lies beneath a damaged circular cairn. The woods have closed around it, but the main stones remain visible in a small clearing above the ordinary land. People may have brought dead bodies into that dark chamber during times when the surrounding region was still being shaped into settlement and memory.

The site is located in a clearing in Slievethoul Woods on the summit of Saggart Hill. A passage tomb comprises of a large circular, round-topped, chambered cairn (diam.22m; H 2.75m). There is a central hollow where cairn material has been robbed. The chamber extends E-W. There are four orthostats in position. The site is too overgrown to identify kerbstones but Herity (1974, 256) describes a single granite boulder visible near the base at N edge of a cairn (Healy 1975, 1-19). It lies c. 300m WNW of passage tomb (DU024-035----) Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 7 July 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 153/1940).

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to approximately 3500–2500 BCE. Its location on the summit of Saggart Hill suggests it was a significant ceremonial or communal site in the prehistoric landscape.

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