Keshcorran Cairn

Kesh Corran Cairn, also called Keshcorran or Céis Chorainn, is a megalithic mound in the Bricklieve Mountains, near Keash, Carrowkeel and Ballymote in County Sligo, Ireland. It stands at 359 m and is known locally as “The Pinnacle.”

The mound is over 5 m high and about 30 m across. It sits on a platform at the northern end of an oval enclosure measuring 206 × 168 m. A smaller D-shaped enclosure at the southern end contains the remains of a small hut. The cairn is covered with vegetation and probably contains a passage tomb.

It belongs to a group of large late Neolithic and early Bronze Age cairns in County Sligo that includes Heapstown and the cairn on Knocknarea. A typological estimate dates Kesh Corran Cairn to 3700 BCE to 2900 BCE. Nearby stone cists, another cairn with a stone cist, a possible hut complex, a large double-banked enclosure, a massive “megalithic” wall structure and a Wedge Tomb suggest a ritual complex.

For people in Keash, the site is the setting for an annual festival on the last Sunday in July. These “Garland-” or “Reek-Sunday” events continue the celebrations of the Celtic Lughnasa. Monuments of this kind in Ireland are often conspicuous hilltop cairns, although many have not been excavated and are dated by comparison with excavated passage tombs.

Keshcorran Cairn is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in Ireland. A typological estimate: 3700 BCE to 2900 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Kesh Corran Cairn", shown in the original language.