This is the large cairn on the top of this open hilltop. It is nearly 2m tall and over 15m in diameter. Unlike the other two cairns on the hill this one is not overgrown with grass. An OS trig point has been placed on top of it.
The views from here are amazing. Large swathes of the Burren are visible and there is some amazing geological formations on show. It may be ankle-breaking to get up here, but it is truly worth it. You can just see the wedge tomb when you stand on the top of the cairn.
There's a rather odd construction of cinder building blocks next to the cairn. It doesn't seen to form any sort of enclosure and so perhaps represents something that was started but never finished. A Black plastic pipe leads from one part of this indicating that there may be a spring up here. If so, this could indicate why a cairn was erected here: water emerging from a hilltop is a phenomenon to be marked.
If you do venture up here be sure to have good footwear. Do not come up here unprepared, because just one trip and you could be stuck there with a broken ankle.
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A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Seahan II (Co. Dublin) |  Cairns P1, P2, Q (Co. Meath) |  Cloghoge (Co. Wicklow) |
 Cappaghkennedy (Co. Clare) |  Slievebawn (Co. Carlow) |  Sorrell Hill (Co. Wicklow) |
