Carrig Cairns

Nearest town:
Blessington (3km WNW)
OS reference:
N997122
OS sheet:
56
Latitude:
53° 9' 3.62 N
Longitude:
6° 30' 34.5 W
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Images

Image of Carrig Cairns (Cairn(s)) by ryaner

Little-red-riding-hood for scale. She’s looking towards Lugnagun with its cairns and a passage grave.

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ryaner
ryaner Apr 9, 2013
Image of Carrig Cairns (Cairn(s)) by ryaner

More barrow-like than cairn-like – the whole field is dry but the fosse that surrounds this is still boggy. The diameter of the ‘cairn’ is about 10 metres and it stands proud of the ground to about .75 of a metre.

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ryaner
ryaner Apr 9, 2013
Image of Carrig Cairns (Cairn(s)) by ryaner

Covered in serious amounts of sheep shit, ruined, neglected and ignored, this is a sad and shameful place 5/9/06.

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ryaner
ryaner Sep 6, 2006
Image of Carrig Cairns (Cairn(s)) by ryaner

“…traces of internal structures in the form of cists or compartments…” recorded in the Arch. Inventory of Co. Wicklow at this site.

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ryaner
ryaner Sep 6, 2006

Articles

Carrig Cairns

ryaner
ryaner Apr 9, 2013

I really liked this little monument. Said to be part of “a complex of prehistoric sites”, there’s a ring cairn two fields away that 4 of the photos here are of, and there’s a quite substantial wedge tomb down the hill. This ‘cairn’ is very barrow-like and has a fosse, probably created by the digging of the material that makes up the mound. The stones on the mound may or may not be part of a disturbance/excavation.

Topics

The Death of a Passage Tomb 15
FourWinds
FourWinds
Sep 2006

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