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See also: form
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In See also: modern times cairns are often erected as landmarks
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In See also: ancient times they were erected as sepulchral monuments
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The Duan Eireanach, an ancient Irish poem, describes the erection of a See also: family See also: cairn; and the Senchus Mor, a collection of ancient Irish See also: laws, prescribes a See also: fine of three threeyear-old heifers for " not erecting the See also: tomb of thy chief." Meetings of the tribes were held at them, and the inauguration of a
See also: CAIRNES
new chief took place on the cairn of one of his predecessors
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It is mentioned in the See also: Annals of the Four Masters that, in 1225, the O'Connor was inaugurated on the cairn of Fraech, the son of Fiodhach of the red hair
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In See also: medieval times cairns are often referred to as boundary marks, though probably not originally raised for that purpose
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In a charter by See also: King
See also: Alexander IL (1221), granting the lands of Burgyn to the monks of Kinloss, the boundary is described as passing " from the
See also: great See also: oak in Malevin as far as the Rune Pictorum," which is explained as " the Carne of the Pecht's fieldis." In Highland districts small cairns used to be erected, even in See also: recent times, at places where the coffin of a distinguished See also: person was " rested " on its way to the churchyard
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Memorial cairns are still occasionally erected, as, for instance, the cairn raised in memory of the See also: prince See also: consort at Balmoral, and" See also: Maule's Cairn," in Glenesk, erected by the See also: earl of Dalhousie in 1866, in memory of himself and certain See also: friends specified by name in the inscription placed upon it
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