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	Creggandevesky - Court Tomb - County Tyrone
		When excavation commenced, the dry stone revetment of the cairn and the structure of the court area itself was revealed, the cairn was in fact a trapezoidal Court Cairn, the initial oval shape being caused by the outward collapse of cairn material over the millennia.
		The entrance to the gallery is in the centre of the court and is capped with an impressively massive gabled lintel stone which is presently partially supported by a thin steel post at the eastern side of the entrance.
		Midwinter solstice alignments are very rare in Court Cairns, of 165 cairns that we have checked the alignments on, only two were within 2 degrees of a 133 bearing and one of these is a court-less ruin with a single chamber 2m wide.
	www.megalithics.com /ireland/creggan/cregmain.htm (1119 words)

	Cairn at AllExperts
		These are typically smaller cairns, so named because some would have a "beak" pointing in the direction of the route.
		Although the practice is not common in English, cairns are sometimes referred to by their anthropomorphic qualities.
		In German and Dutch, a cairn is known as Steinmann and Steenman respectively, meaning literally "stoneman".
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ca/cairn.htm (812 words)

	Image Clontygora Court Cairn
		Of the 391 court tombs in Ireland almost all are north of a line from Sligo to Carlingford.
		A central burial chamber, which may have several smaller chambers leading from it is connected to the outside by a passage.
		The whole is covered by a, mainly round, stone or earth cairn, ringed by 'kerbstones'.
	members.tripod.com /cregganhistory/imagesclontygora.htm (348 words)

	Neolithic Megalithic Tomb Builders Detail
		Cremation is common in court tombs, perhaps because of the issue of preservation.
		Court tombs are found almost predominantly in the North of Ireland, most likely because of the materials available in different regional areas.
		Court tombs were located in prominent places within the communities, but not much is known about a connection between mortuary practices and residential areas in the Neolithic period.
	www.nd.edu /~ikuijt/Ireland/Sites/mdonnel2/tombdetail.htm.htm (2210 words)

	Loughcrew - Sliabh na Caillí
		Sliabh na Caillí, or the Mountains of the Witch as Loughcrew was known, lies west of the town of Kells and south of Oldcastle in west Co. Meath.
		The top of each peak is capped by by a group of chambered cairns, and originally there were probably some 40 monuments in total.
		She is said to have dropped the big heaps of stones from her apron as she hopped across the hill - an interesying story.
	www.carrowkeel.com /sites/loughcrew/loughcrew.html (325 words)

	Scheme of Arrangement
		The Directors intend unanimously to recommend all Cairn Shareholders to vote in favour of the resolutions to be proposed at the Court Meeting and EGM, as they intend to do in respect of their own beneficial holdings of Cairn Shares which, in aggregate, represent 1.12 per cent.
		The reorganisation is to be implemented by way of a scheme of arrangement between Cairn and its Shareholders under section 425 of the Act, and is subject to the sanction of the Court and the approvals from Cairn Shareholders at the EGM and at a separate meeting convened by the Court.
		Cairn Energy PLC is the ultimate holding company for the Cairn Group and also one of its principal trading companies with direct interests in oil and gas assets.
	www.cairn-energy.plc.uk /artman/publish/printer_60.shtml (2588 words)

	Carrowmore
		It was possibly built as a symbolic tomb of mother earth, and she faced her enemies to the north (the winter darkness) and then her legend was appropriated by the peoples who came later.
		North of Sligo is the Court Cairn of Creevykeel.
		Court Cairns have a large court (seen in the background of these photos) which leads onto the burial chambers.
	www.leafpile.com /TravelLog/Ireland/Carrowmore/Carrowmore.htm (814 words)

	County Mayo - selected monuments
		The cairn rises to the top of the gallery-stones (about 1.5 metres high) and is over 16 metres long by 14 metres wide.
		Farther again to the W, and on the same axis, is a three-chambered gallery which may have a forecourt facing W. The cairn would seem, therefore, to house a double-court tomb which was extended by the addition of a single court-tomb to the E, containing the (not necessarily contemporaneous) transeptal chamber.
		The straight-sided cairn is nearly 20 metres long and 10 metres wide, and points N straighht into the mountain.
	www.irishmegaliths.org.uk /mayo.htm (3481 words)

	Annaghmare Court Tomb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This court tomb is known locally as the Black Castle and is one of the finest examples of this type of monument.
		This method of construction, where all the gaps in the court were filled, may have had special acoustical properties, which may have been important in ritual.
		The highest stone in the court is about 1.7m and the highest in the gallery about 1m.
	cloghmore.bravepages.com /armagh/annaghmare.html (178 words)

	HERITAGE: New Inn (and surrounding area), Co. Galway, Republic of Ireland.
		CAIRN: The stones shown on the right, which are just by the roadside, are located 5 miles or so to the north east of New Inn village near a place called Alloon (which is close to Ballymacward).
		Some archaeologists believe that court cairns may be the very oldest form of Irish burial monument.
		The Cairn at Alloon is listed under the name "Annagh an Teanach" (reference number 1026) on pages 4 and 5 of the book entitled "Archaeological Inventory of County Galway (Volume II)" - which was published in 1999 by the Government Stationary Office in Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.
	homepage.eircom.net /~williamfinnerty/heritage/local1.htm (1204 words)

	Stripping-Please Help - Cairn Talk Forum
		She told me that she will strip him, clip his nails, and groom the rest of him for $20!!! I want to keep the natural look of a Cairn, but I will never show Scotch, he is just my little boy, and I do not want to hurt him.
		For the companion Cairn this feels like a reasonable compromise to many as it is fast and relatively easy, but keeps a certain amount of healthy coat coming in.
		I got to the groomer this morning and I took Scotch out of his kennel and the groomer scooped him right up and loved on him and he began licking her face, so I feel tons better knowing that he likes her.
	www.cairnterrier.org /forum/index.php?showtopic=819 (525 words)

	Cairn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cairns along hiking trails are often maintained by groups of hikers adding a stone when they pass, however this practice is subject to criticism; often hikers will unwittingly damage cairns, which can be dangerous if the cairn is used for navigation.
		Cairns can be found all over the world in alpine or mountainous regions, and also in barren desert and tundra areas as well as on coasts.
		In the Italian Alps a cairn is popularly referred as "Ometto." And in Mongolia they are called "owoo." The Finnish name for a cairn used as sea mark is "kummeli".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cairn (996 words)

	Ulster history - Neolithic Farming
		Creevykeel court cairn in Co. Sligo, dating from the third millennium BC - 77k
		Court tombs (like the one at Creevykeel, Co. Sligo) and portal tombs are mostly found in the northern part of Ireland, but wedge tombs are concentrated in the west.
		In the case of court tombs, the court was probably used for some type of ritual, while some of the chambers within the cairn were used for burials.
	www.cruithni.org.uk /overview/over_2.html (532 words)

	Stone Monuments Decay Study 2000
		Creevykeel Court Cairn consists of a wedge-shaped cairn, dating from between 3500 and 2500 BC, with a burial chamber opening directly opposite the entrance to the central court.
		The burial chamber is orientated longitudinally in relation to the cairn.
		The cairn is situated on a gentle north-facing slope surrounded by pastureland, and is located within a modern sub-rectangular stone enclosure.
	www.heritagecouncil.ie /publications/stone/site67.html (430 words)

	Old Parish County Waterford Ireland - Area
		An example of the earliest megalithic tombs in Ireland, commonly known as court tombs, is to be found in the area of the Mine Head Lighthouse.
		This group can be further sub-divided, into court cairns, southern wedge-shaped galleries and northern wedge-shaped galleries, Court cairns are so called because the tombs consist generally of a covered gallery for burial with one or more unroofed forecourts for rituals.
		The tomb at Ballynamona is a court cairn and is the only example of its kind in the southeast.
	www.oldparish.org /oldparish.htm (1801 words)

	Carrowkeel Description
		Cairn B is another of the undifferentiated types except here there is only one side recess on the right hand side as you look into the cairn.
		Cairns G, H, and K are all step elevated down the North facing slope of their limestone escarpment.
		It should be first noted that all central azimuths are taken from the back walls of the cairn chambers except in the case of the allee coudee (cairn H) which has two orthostats (R6 and R8) that appear to be the intended target of the Sun and the Moon.
	bluhorizonlines.org /car/car2.html (777 words)

	Ally - Court Tomb - County Tyrone
		The gallery entrance is blocked by dry stone walling which is part of the remains of a sheepfold built over the court area of the tomb.
		We could not make out the original extent of the court area, the court stones and cairn material were probably recycled during the construction of the later sheepfold.
		The gabled backstone was prominent, as was the surviving corbelling on both sides of the chamber, but the chamber entrance and any surviving approach structure was completely buried in dense growth.
	www.megalithics.com /ireland/ally/allymain.htm (271 words)

	Loughcrew - megalithic art
		American researcher Martin Brennan demonstrated in the early 1980's that the equinox sunrises illuminate this complex slab of megalithic symbols.
		The only surviving engraved kerbstone, the Hag's Chair, is positioned on the north side of the cairn.
		The archaeologist Elisabeth Shee Twohig took rubbings of the Loughcrew stones (with the seeming exception of the Hag's Chair), and her book, the Megalithic Art of Western Europe is essential to anyone who wishes to locate all the engraved stones.
	www.carrowkeel.com /sites/loughcrew/loughcrew1.html (537 words)

	Chambered cairn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a cairn of stones inside which a sizeable (usually stone) chamber was constructed.
		Because of the lack of other remains (the only other significant remains we have are Hut circles and field systems), they are perhaps the most important clue we have to what civilisation in Scotland was like in the Neolithic.
		As their name suggests they are normally found in the Hebrides, and have a crude polygonal chamber and a very short passage to one end of the cairn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chambered_cairn (589 words)

	Historic County Sligo is the historic backdrop for Ireland's 2004 (30 September to 3 October) International Genealogy ...
		Creevykeel, near the village of Cliffoney, is one of the most extensive court tombs in the Country and dates back to 3000-4000 b.c..
		The open oval shaped court is delineated by upright stones with an entrance on the East.
		There are fourteen cairns in all, consisting of both passage and Court tombs.
	www.sligoroots.com /festival/about_sligo.html (871 words)

	If you are looking for a Cairn in So. California.. - Cairn Talk Forum
		Posting a request for a Cairn seeker to contact you or someone else: not allowed.
		The only option I have left for changing my dog's registration is through a costly and uncertain civic court trial.
		Needless to say, if you are going to buy a quality pup, BEWARE, buy from a breeder who has been referred by the AKC or one of it's breed clubs.
	www.cairnterrier.org /forum/index.php?showtopic=514 (283 words)

	Image Annaghmare Passage Grave
		Known as 'The Black Castle' Annaghmare is the most westerly of a group of monuments around Slieve Gullion.
		Nearly 20 meters long and two meters high, it is a single-court tomb, with its south-facing, horseshoe-shaped court well preserved.
		Two lateral chambers at the north end of the cairn were built later than the rest of the tomb, and have independent entrances.
	members.tripod.com /cregganhistory/imagesannaghmare.htm (347 words)

	Arasain Bhalor - History From Donegal
		There is a fine example of a Court Cairn, the earliest megalithic tomb, to be found in Ballyboes (Cloughacorra).
		A court cairn usually had a room, or several rooms, built from great slabs of stone in which the cremated ashes of the dead were placed.
		There was an open space or court in front of the burial chamber where the funeral ceremony would have taken place.
	www.arasainbhalor.com /history.aspx (1696 words)

	landscape
		The outer courtyards of such Court Cairns are believed to have been used for funerary ceremonies.
		Photograph © Copyright J. This COURT CAIRN at Slieve na Caillighe "The Hill of the Witches" in County Meath, is still surrounded by an earthern bank.
		This particular cairn has seven internal alcoves partitioned by large upright stones, and this stone with its 'serpent carving' is placed near the entrance court.
	www.iol.ie /~plugin/landscap.htm (1661 words)

	megalithomania.com - Lemgare - Court Tomb - County Monaghan
		After waiting about ten minutes for me to arrive (I forgot to add in 'stuck behind tractor' factor), myself and Anthony headed up to this tomb, knowing only that it was a court with cairn.
		Well, it's a court filled with cairn material and a couple of stones from the gallery.
		The remains of the chamber are slight and only about four court stones poke through the debris.
	www.megalithomania.com /show_site.php?site_id=719 (171 words)

	Tapestry, weaving together the Myth, History and Archaeology of Ireland--The Neolithic
		The location of stone structures and megaliths, including court cairns, wedge tombs, portal graves and court cairns indicate the possibility of two or more distinct groups at work.
		The second would be the Court Cairn builders who landed in Co. Mayo to migrate eastward to intermingle with the Passage tomb builders.
		Thus, it is with some temerity that I would point out that of the megalithic structure types, three (Court Cairns, Passage Tombs and Wedge Tombs) are all mounded.
	www.danann.org /library/arch/neo.html (1484 words)

	Carrowkeel - Cairn E (Court Tomb) \| The Modern Antiquarian \| Carrowkeel - Cairn E (Court Tomb)
		This is the odd one out amongst the Carrowkeel cairns as it is the only long cairn.
		It has been classified as a court cairn because of the unusual features at its S end.
		Only two days were spent excavating the cairn so some important detail may have been missed.
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /site/5361 (268 words)

	NEWGRANGE
		A more complicated form of megalithic tomb is represented by what is known as a court-cairn or court-tomb.
		This has the form of a rectangular burial chamber, often divided up by jambs and sills, and entered from a court or forecourt which is roughly semi-circular in shape and in which some form of funerary ritual probably took place.
		It was around 2500BC, or possibly somewhat earlier, that art was first applied to architecture in Ireland, when the two combine on what are known as passage graves or passage tombs.
	homepage.eircom.net /~magra1/Boyne/newgrange.html (825 words)

	megalithomania.com - Dooey's Cairn at Ballymacaldrack - Court Tomb - County Antrim
		Dooey's Cairn is well signposted from the B16 1km southeast of Dunloy.
		The court is 7m deep by 7m wide and formed from massive stones, some of which are covered in the most vivid lichen I have ever seen.
		This is a great site which, sadly, has had a lot of ambience killed off by the proximity of the enclosure fence, which itself is not too overpowering, just too close.
	www.megalithomania.com /show_site.php?site_id=817 (190 words)

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