Cairn, Cloghleagh, Co. Wicklow
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Cairns
On a peat-covered slope in the Wicklow uplands, a circular cairn sits quietly inside a rough ring of boulders, the whole arrangement easy to miss unless you already know what you are looking at.
A cairn, in this context, is simply a deliberate mound of stones, typically associated with prehistoric burial or ritual activity. This one measures about five metres across and rises to roughly a metre in height, set within an irregular boulder circle spanning sixteen metres. It is not a dramatic monument, but its placement is considered: the slope faces south-southwest, and the cairn occupies the northern end of a larger oval enclosure.
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