cairn ireland

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This is a collapsed dolmen of large stones placed within an almost circular cairn about 4ft high. An excavation in 1934 was unrewarding because of earlier disturbance....

On the south summit is a cairn containing what is claimed to be the highest passage-tomb in Britain or Ireland. A 25-ft long lintelled passage, originally even longer, leads to an octagonal chamber constructed of upright stones which bore a now vanished corbelled roof. Excavations in 1961 showed cremation to have been the dominant burial rite practised in the tomb. Furthermore north, and at a level around 140 ft lower, is the north cairn, which contained two cists for the burial of cremated r...

A large stone cairn about 150 feet in diameter, which probably covers a Passage-tomb. It stands near one side of an earthwork which may have been erected much later than the cairn....

A large stone cairn about 100 feet in diameter and about 25 feet high which probably covers a Passage-tomb. In a field on the opposite side of the road is an overgrown fort called Cathair Phaeter ('The pewter Fort') which consists of a collapsed stone wall with a bank outside it. There is a souterrain in the interior of the fort....

A stay in Cootehill would not be complete without a visit to Cohaw Court Cairn.
A fine example of a double court-tomb, looking as if two single court-tombs were placed back to back. There is a semicircular forecourt at each end, with five burial chambers between them.

The tomb, which was excavated in 1949, stands in a rectangular stone mound delineated by kerb-stones. A stone Age pottery vessel was found during the excavations.

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An ambiguous group of Bronze Age ritual and funerary monuments, overlying traces of Neolithic occupation in an area of cutaway bog to the south of the Sperrin Mountains. Uncovered in stages since 1945, the structures comprise stone circles, tangential alignments and cairns, remarkable for their complexity and extent. It may safely be assumed that others await discovery beneath the all-pervading peat. As is usual in the Ulster Circles, the stones here are mostly of no great height, with the exc...