| Fieldstown - Cairn |
The description and the photo of this site in the Louth Archaeological Survey looks amazing, but what you find when you get here is quite different. The photo shows two exposed cists in the cairn, one of which has its wall slabs slightly exposed. You can't see these today, though, as the top of the monument is covered in brambles and gorse bushes.
It is disgraceful that a monument such as this has been allowed to become so overgrown. I really feel that this should become a National Monument and come under state care. It is so unusual to find such a monument that people should be able to see it properly.
The cairn occupies the highest point on a low ridge. In the field below it there is a second cairn (see sub-site). The east edge of the cairn is interupted by a hedgerow.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Baltinglass (Co. Wicklow) |  Tibradden (Co. Dublin) |  Aghnaskeagh (Co. Louth) |
 Coumaraglin NW - North Cairn (Co. Waterford) |  Topped Mountain (Co. Fermanagh) |  Blackheath (Co. Dublin) |
