A cairn is a mound of stones, often located
on hill-tops or at townland boundaries. There are nearly 100 surviving
recorded cairns in County Clare, not including wayside
cairns and cemetery
cairns.
Photos
of the cairns of Clare Map
of the cairns of Clare (based on the Sites and Monuments Record created
by the OPW overlaid on the 1842 Ordnance Survey index map).