Cemetery
cairns are stone burial mounds, usually found on hill-tops. The larger
cairns contain megalithic tombs, e.g. passage-tombs, portal-tombs
or wedge-tombs. The smaller cairns cover more simple burials, the
usual type of grave found in these cairns being cists. Cairns are
generally circular in profile, but can also be oval or D-shaped.
There are five known recorded cemetery cairns in County Clare.
Photos
of cemetery cairns Map
of the cemetery cairns of Clare (based on the Sites and Monuments Record
created by the OPW overlaid on the 1842 Ordnance Survey index map).