Coolcreen

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery

The hawthorn trees form a ring around the middle, unclassified barrow.

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Posted by ryaner
21st May 2017ce

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Comments (3)

The trees look like they add to the site, really nice. Makes me wonder if trees, flowers, etc were ever somehow incorporated in/around sites when first built, for colour and a connection to nature? I always think wild flowers and tall grasses look so nice around stones at this time of year.	Posted by thelonious 22nd May 2017ce


You'd like to think so, indeed. And the whitethorns have certainly helped preserve such places in Ireland. The fairies would be much displeased if you cut them. It wasn't worth the risk.	Posted by Rhiannon 22nd May 2017ce


It was quite an enchanting place altogether with each individual barrow having it's own character(istics). There seems to be a degree of deliberation with the trees here and there is an archaeological feature called 'designed landscape - tree ring' in the list at the SMR here http://webgis.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/ though this type of monument is much more modern than the barrows at Coolcreen.	Posted by ryaner 22nd May 2017ce

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