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Stone Cairn beside Kilbeg Wedge Tomb

Cairn, unclassified

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Kilbeg Wedge Tomb and Stone Cairn stand twenty-one metres apart on Donegal ground. The wedge tomb is a long chamber with narrow ends. The cairn is an irregular mound of stone, seventeen metres long and five and a half metres wide. Together they mark a place where people shaped stone into death, memory and presence.
An irregular mound of stone 17m NE-SW × 5.5m NW-SE, c. 21m S of a wedge-tomb (114). The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Stone cairn; likely Bronze Age. Associated with a wedge tomb, indicating a funerary or ritual landscape of significance in west Ulster.

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