What is recorded here

Round Cairn in Grange Park, County Derry, is a prehistoric burial or boundary marker, not a modern ornament. Its stones may have watched herds, marked a family line, or held dead bodies before christendom arrived. The park around it has changed, but the cairn remains a round assertion that people once lived there and wanted to be remembered.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ROUND CAIRN. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Round cairn, dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age period. These cairns are significant as they often served as burial monuments or ritual sites, reflecting early communal practices and beliefs in the region.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.