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ROUND CAIRN: THE VOLCANO in Tildarg

ROUND CAIRN: THE VOLCANO

What is recorded here

ROUND CAIRN: THE VOLCANO in Tildarg, County Antrim, Ireland, is a scheduled Bronze Age and prehistoric round cairn. The volcano name suggests people once saw fire or heat in that place, perhaps misreading stone or remembering loss. The cairn still marks the ground where human hands gathered rock and made shape.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ROUND CAIRN: THE VOLCANO. Recorded period: BRONZE AGE; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age round cairn, dating to the prehistoric period. Its scheduled protection status indicates archaeological importance, though specific details on construction or finds remain unrecorded.

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