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Cairnholy 3
Date Added: 14th Apr 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cairnholy 3 submitted by markj99 on 6th Apr 2025. Cairnholy 3 Cup & Ring Carved Stone viewed from W.
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Log Text: Cairnholy 3 is an easy walk from Cairnholy Carpark through several grassy fields along a vague path. The large cup and ring marking is clearly visible despite erosion.
Cairnholy 2 (Rock Art)
Date Added: 14th Apr 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cairnholy 2 (Rock Art) submitted by Energyman on 30th Nov 2019. Taken at night with the aid of an off-set torch
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Log Text: I have visited the Cairnholy Cairns so often I couldn't possibly list them so I recorded my last visit. It was only recently I took more interest in the cup markings on the N Portal stone. I resolved to visit in the soft early light. My resulting photos of the cups were the best I had captured. My pictures are available in the Cairnholy 2 (Rock Art) page.
Cairnholy 2
Date Added: 14th Apr 2025
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cairnholy 2 submitted by Greengirl on 21st Mar 2020. Cairnholy 2 with Megalithic Jess on Spring Equinox
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Log Text: I have been a frequent visitor of Cairnholy Chambered Cairns over the years: Too many times to list them so I have added my last visit. These magnificent monuments will continue to draw me back.
Cairnholy 15
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 15 submitted by markj99 on 13th Jun 2025. Cairnholy 15 Carved Panel viewed from ENE.
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Log Text: Cairnholy 15 Carved Panel is probably the the least impressive of all the panels on this rocky outcrop, however an eroded cup and ring marking and a shallow cup carving obscured by white lichen can be found on panel, c. 6 feet SE of Cairnholy 13 at the SE foot of the knoll.
Cairnholy 14
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 14 submitted by markj99 on 11th Apr 2025. S Cup Carvings on Cairnholy 14 Cup Carved Panel (20p Coins for Scale).
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Log Text: Cairnholy 14 Carved Panel is c. 3 feet E of Cairnholy 4 in the NE corner of the outcrop. It contains 2 cup carvings several inches E of 2 natural depressions in the S Half of the panel.
Cairnholy 13
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 13 submitted by markj99 on 12th Jun 2025. Enhanced Grooves on SW of Cairnholy 13 Carved Panel.
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Log Text: Cairnholy 13 Carved Panel is located on a rock outcrop c. 10 feet from a stone wall on the W margin of a large field c. 0.5 mile N of Cairnholy farm. It is c. 130 yards SE of a natural knoll in the centre of the field. There are multiple carved panels of varying quality on this location. Cairnholy 4,11-15 Carved Panels are all listed separately on TMP.
Cairnholy 12
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 12 submitted by markj99 on 11th Apr 2025. W Double Cup & Ring Carving on Cairnholy 12 Carved Panel.
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Log Text: Cairnholy 12 Carved Panel is one of 6 panels of rock art carvings on a rocky knoll on the W margin of a large field c. 0.5 mile N of Cairnholy Farm. The most obvious feature is a double cup marking on the W end of the panel.
Cairnholy 11
Date Added: 17th Jun 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnholy 11 submitted by markj99 on 10th Apr 2025. Cairnholy 11 Cup Carved Panel viewed from ENE.
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Log Text: Cairnholy 11 Carved Panel is located in the NW corner of a rocky knoll on the W margin of a large field c. 0.5 miles N of Cairnholy Farm. It is c. 6 feet E of the stone wall marking the field boundary. 8 small cup markings are geometrically arranged in 2 parallel lines of 4 equally spaced cups are carved in the centre of a rounded slab.
Cairnholy 1
Date Added: 14th Apr 2025
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cairnholy 1 submitted by wolfnighthunter on 19th Nov 2008. Cairnholy 1
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Log Text: I have visited the Cairnholy Cairns so often I couldn't possibly list them so I recorded my last visit. It was only recently I took more interest in the cup markings on the N Portal stone. I resolved to visit in the soft early light. My resulting photos of the cups were the best I had captured. My pictures are available in Cairnholy 2 (Rock Art) page on TMP.
Cairnharrow Summit
Date Added: 30th Apr 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 27th Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Cairnharrow Summit submitted by markj99 on 30th Apr 2022. Cairnharrow Summit Cairn viewed from W.
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Log Text: Cairnharrow is c. 3 miles E of Creetown. Creetown Summit Cairn is easily visited via Cambret Hill. Take the R turn 100 yards before the Gem Rock Museum in Creetown signposted for Glenquicken Farm Trout Fishery. After c. 2.5 miles there is a lay-by opposite Glenquicken Stone Circle on the R side. Continue E for c. 1.1 miles to the access track to Cambret Hill mast. There is a lay-by at NX 52645 57987 0.5 miles up the track, just below the Cambret Hill mast. I have plotted a 1.25 mile route S to Cairnharrow Summit Cairn via 3 Cairns, 1 Stone Circle, 1 Cup and Ring Marked Stone and 1 Modern Worked Stone on my OS Mapping Routes (go to main page).
Cairnerzean Fell Summit
Date Added: 19th Feb 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 9th Feb 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 1
Cairnerzean Fell Summit submitted by markj99 on 19th Feb 2022. Cairnerzean Fell Summit Cairn viewed from S.
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Log Text: Cairnerzean Fell Summit Cairn is one of the Cairnerzean Fell Cairn Group on open moorland. The cairns vary in states of preservation from entirely robbed out to relatively intact. Cairnerzean Fell Summit Cairn has been extensively robbed and modified with a sheep ree and a modern cairn.
Cairnerzean Fell South
Date Added: 20th Feb 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 9th Feb 2022. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 4 Access 1
Cairnerzean Fell South submitted by markj99 on 19th Feb 2022. Centre of Cairnerzean Fell S Cairn viewed from S.
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Log Text: Cairnerzean Fell S Cairn is one of the Cairnerzean Fell Cairn Group on open moorland. The cairns vary in states of preservation from entirely robbed out to relatively intact. Cairnerzean Fell S Cairn is the most speculative of the group. There is a grassy circular footprint c. 20 yards across in rough moorland but all the stones have been removed. There is a natural rocky knoll in the centre of the cairn.
Cairnerzean Fell N
Date Added: 20th Feb 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 9th Feb 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 1
Cairnerzean Fell N submitted by markj99 on 19th Feb 2022. Cairnerzean Fell N Cairn viewed from W.
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Log Text: Cairnerzean Fell N Cairn is one of the Cairnerzean Fell Cairn Group on open moorland. The cairns vary in states of preservation from entirely robbed out to relatively intact. Cairnerzean Fell N Cairn is the best preserved of the group with an intact central mound. The stone kerb is intact round the perimeter but stone robbing has left a void between the kerb and the central mound.
Cairnerzean Fell Central
Date Added: 20th Feb 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 9th Feb 2022
Cairnerzean Fell Central submitted by markj99 on 19th Feb 2022. Cairnerzean Fell Central Cairn viewed from S.
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Log Text: Cairnerzean Fell Central Cairn is one of the Cairnerzean Fell Cairn Group on open moorland. The cairns vary in states of preservation from entirely robbed out to relatively intact. Cairnerzean Fell Central Cairn has been extensively robbed leaving a c. 4 feet high crescent of stones in the NE Arc of the original cairn. The remainder of the cairn has disappeared into a circle of boggy moorland.
Cairnerzean Farm SW
Date Added: 18th Feb 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 8th Feb 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cairnerzean Farm SW submitted by markj99 on 18th Feb 2022. Cairnerzean Farm SW Cairn viewed from E.
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Log Text: There is parking space at NX 1502 6755 on the minor road from New Luce to Penwhirn Reservoir c. 0.25 miles S of Cairnerzean Farm road. The Cairnerzean Cairns are within 100 yards S of the lay-by. It is better to visit in Autumn or Winter when the bracken has died off revealing the true footprints of the cairns.
Cairnerzean Farm NE
Date Added: 18th Feb 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 8th Feb 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cairnerzean Farm NE submitted by markj99 on 18th Feb 2022. Earthfast stone measuring c. 12 x 12 x 18 inches in E Arc of Cairnerzean Farm NE Cairn.
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Log Text: There is parking space at NX 1502 6755 on the minor road from New Luce to Penwhirn Reservoir c. 0.25 miles S of Cairnerzean Farm road. The Cairnerzean Cairns are within 100 yards S of the lay-by. It is better to visit in Autumn or Winter when the bracken has died off revealing the true footprints of the cairns.
Cairnennock
Date Added: 31st Jul 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (East Ayrshire)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairnennock submitted by markj99 on 31st Jul 2024. Stone Wall in W Arc of Cairnennock Cairn.
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Log Text: Cairnennock Cairn is a relatively well preserved white cairn in moorland above Loch Muck in East Ayrshire. It is possible to park just N of Eriff Farm. A path leads through the farm round Loch Muck. When you reach a sheepfold head W up the moorland. After c 150 yards you will see the marker cairn on the horizon.
Cairnderry
Date Added: 25th Mar 2025
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cairnderry submitted by mickm on 17th Mar 2005. View of the cairn looking eastsoutheast up the passage to the northeast chamber. The south chamber is visible to top left and the outline of the 2002 excavations in the quadrant around the northwest chamber can be made out at the top of the picture.
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Log Text: On my first visit to Cairnderry Cairn the perimeter and the chambers of the cairn were obscured by vegetation making interpretation difficult.
Cairnderry
Date Added: 25th Mar 2025
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 24th Mar 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cairnderry submitted by mickm on 17th Mar 2005. View of the cairn looking eastsoutheast up the passage to the northeast chamber. The south chamber is visible to top left and the outline of the 2002 excavations in the quadrant around the northwest chamber can be made out at the top of the picture.
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Log Text: On my return visit I found Cairnderry in an improved condition: The kerb of the cairn was discernible and the exposed chambers in the centre of the cairn were free from vegetation. I was able to reconcile the remains of the cairn with the plan.
Cairnderry Cairn is an impressive monument with easy access from the A714, deserving of more visitors.
Cairn Wood (Barskeoch)
Date Added: 20th Oct 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 15th Aug 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cairn Wood (Barskeoch) submitted by markj99 on 16th Aug 2023. Large stones deposited on southern arc of Cairn Wood (Barskeoch) Cairn.
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Log Text: The route to Cairn Wood (Barskeoch) follows the old military road from Blackpark farm c. 1 mile W of Newton Stewart. There is space for a car to park at the junction with the A75. The final approach follows a track through fields to a cairn hidden in a wood. My route can be viewed on Cairn Wood (Barskeoch).