Corn Hill rises out of the lowlands to the north of Longford town like a mini Knocknarea (County Sligo). It is made even more conspicuous by the massive transmitter aerial on its topmost point. At the foot of this transmitter is the first of the two cairns that are to be found on the hill (the GPS reading on the left is for this cairn.)
The mound is about 3m tall and 20m or so in diameter. It is current crowned by an OS trig point. Near to the base of the trig point there is a depression, which may be lined with large stone blocks - is this the top of a cist?
About 300m west of the transmitter is another cairn - GPS=N 18587 84153 (5m). This one is very indistinct as it is just 1.5m tall and very covered in heather. A modern field boundary and fence almost masks it from the path that leads from the first cairn. The centre of this one has been dug out and two trenches cross it at right angles. At the southern edge of the cairn there is a large, flat boulder - was this part of an internal structure or even a kerb?
As you would expect from a site on the top of such an isolated hill the views are tremendous. In every direction (when not obscured by pine plantations) the plane below seems to stretch out to the very edges of the world where they are bordered by a ring of mountains.
I must also mention the name. Some call it Cairn Hill, while others call it Corn Hill. It is very easy to argue that Corn Hill is just a perversion of Cairn Hill, but I want to suggest another origin: Perhaps these cairns were places of celebrating the harvest at Lugnassa like so many other hilltop cairns and mounds.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Scartnadrinnymountain (Co. Waterford) |  Carrowkeel - Cairn D (Co. Sligo) |  Slievenabawnogue (Co. Dublin) |
 Newtown Hill (Co. Dublin) |  Cutteen North (Co. Waterford) |  Fieldstown (Co. Louth) |
