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Image of Slieve Gullion – North Cairn (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Northwards over the smaller, northern cairn – still, with a diameter of 15 metres, quite substantial.

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Image of Slieve Gullion – North Cairn (Passage Grave) by ryaner

Kerbstones, and a peculiar orthostat, on the north arc of the cairn.

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Image of Slieve Gullion – North Cairn (Passage Grave) by ryaner

On top of the second cairn, with the lake and the passage grave in the distance.

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Image of Slieve Gullion – North Cairn (Passage Grave) by ryaner

From the north cairn looking south, over the lake, towards the passage grave on the summit in the distance

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Slieve Gullion — North Cairn
Passage Grave

Excavated in 1961 and found to be almost intact. “The cairn has a maximum height of 10 ft. and a diameter of 50 ft., but there was no kerb: instead, slabs of rock had been wedged into natural crevices around the periphery to prevent the slip of cairn material.” Two cists were found, one empty and the other “with the cremated remains of one adult and the sherds of a tripartite bowl-shaped food vessel. This seems to have been a secondary burial.”
Estyn Evans: Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland. Batsford, 1966

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