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'Vicars Carn' : Cairn

TownlandVicarscarn
CountyArmagh
Grid RefH 914 398
GPSH 91416 39757 (7m)
Longitude6° 35' 44.55" W
Latitude54° 17' 53.94" N
Nearest TownMarkethill (4.9 Km)
OS Sheets28, 28B
UTM zone29U
UTM x656456.67130925
UTM y6019379.7488831
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 5th February 2006

Finding this site made no sense at all! The roads all seemed to be in the wrong place ... basically I got lost ...

Eventually I found it and was pleasantly surprised by the state of preservation - if you ignore the trig point that's been plonked on top of it.

The cairn is over 4m tall and 20m in diameter. Id it just a cairn or is there a passage in there somewhere? It is certainly in the right kind of place for a passage tomb. As with everywhere else today the weather was too poor to assess the views from this high spot.

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