What is recorded here

Carn is a low, grass-covered chambered cairn on a Monaghan drumlin, mapping a rectangular shadow sixteen metres long and seven and a half wide. Its steep sides still hold the shape of deliberate human arrangement, while the wider SW boundary suggests a field wall later joined the ancient line. The chamber has disappeared from view, but the surviving outline keeps the dead and the living separated on that rising ground.

Situated on top of a drumlin. It is depicted only on the 1907 edition of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a ‘carn’. It is a low subrectangular grass-covered cairn (dims 16m NW-SE; 7.5m NE-SW) defined by fairly steep sides (at NE: Wth 0.5m H 0.7m) on all sides except the SW where there is a wider than usual NW-SE field wall (Wth of base 1.6m), and there is a NE-SW field wall just to the N. No structural stones are visible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Revised by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 29 January 2018

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