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    A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish...
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    The Cairn Terrier is a terrier breed originating in the Scottish Highlands and recognised as one of Scotland's earliest working dogs. The name “Cairn Terrier”...
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    Bowl barrow (redirect from Cairn circle)
    resemblance to an upturned bowl. Related terms include cairn circle, cairn ring, howe, kerb cairn, tump and rotunda grave. Bowl barrows were created from...
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  • Look up cairn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A cairn is a man-made pile of stones. Cairn may also refer to: Cairn O' Mounth (Scottish Gaelic: Càrn...
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  • The Life Cairn is a type of public memorial built around the world for species rendered extinct by human activity. It takes the form of a cairn. The first...
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    The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of three cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness...
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  • number of mountains in the British Isles have the name Cairn Hill Cairn Hill (Antarctica) Cairn Hill, Northumberland, one of the Cheviot Hills, England...
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    cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which a cairn of...
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    Ballymacgibbon Cairn is a cairn and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland. Ballymacgibbon Cairn is atop a hill 1.4 km (0.87 mi) west of Cross...
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    Miosgán Meadhbha, anglicized Miosgan Meva and also called Maeve's Cairn, is a large cairn on the summit of Knocknarea in County Sligo, Ireland. It is thought...
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    Barnenez (redirect from Cairn of Barnenez)
    The Cairn of Barnenez (also: Barnenez Tumulus, Barnenez Mound; in Breton Karn Barnenez; in French: Cairn de Barnenez or Tumulus de Barnenez) is a Neolithic...
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  • Eochy's Cairn is a cairn and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland. Eochy's Cairn is atop a hill 3 km (1.9 mi) northwest of The Neale. Eochy's...
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    Cairn India was an Indian oil and gas exploration and production company, headquartered in Gurgaon, India. The company was merged with Vedanta Limited...
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    Cairn Catto is a Neolithic long cairn near the village of Longside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Historic Environment Scotland established the site as a scheduled...
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    Heapstown Cairn is a cairn and National Monument located in County Sligo, Ireland. Heapstown Cairn is located on a low hill immediately west of the River...
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    Cairn Gorm (Scottish Gaelic: An Càrn Gorm) is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. It is part of the Cairngorms range and wider Grampian Mountains. With...
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    The Three-Country Cairn (Finnish: Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykki, Northern Sami: Golmma riikka urna, Norwegian: Treriksrøysa, Swedish: Treriksröset) is...
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  • Carns Cairn is a cairn and National Monument located in County Sligo, Ireland. Carns Cairn is located in Carns Forest between Sligo town and Lough Gill...
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    The court cairn or court tomb is a megalithic type of chambered cairn or gallery grave. During the period, 3900–3500 BC, more than 390 court cairns were...
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  • Cashel Cairn is a cairn and National Monument located in County Mayo, Ireland. Cashel Cairn is 4.8 km (3.0 mi) north of Killala, west of Killala Bay. "Cashel...
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    Cairn Mon Earn or Cairn-mon-earn is a hill in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Cairn Mon Earn (OS: Cairn-mon-earn) lies within the Durris Forest, in the Mounth...
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  • Cairn Homes is an Irish house-builder and developer focusing on the Greater Dublin Area and other major urban areas of Ireland. The company is listed...
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    The Cairn of Peace Memorial (Czech: Mohyla míru, "Mound of Peace") is the memorial to the fallen in the Battle of Austerlitz, the first peace memorial...
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    Skeagh Cairn is a cairn and ring barrow and National Monument located in County Cork, Ireland. It is located 5.8 km (3.6 mi) northwest of Skibbereen. A...
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    Parc Cwm long cairn (Welsh: carn hir Parc Cwm), also known as Parc le Breos burial chamber (siambr gladdu Parc le Breos), is a partly restored Neolithic...
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  • Capricorn Energy plc (formerly Cairn Energy plc) is a British oil and gas exploration and development company based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The company...
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  • Cairn.info is a French-language web portal, founded in 2005, containing scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences and recently scientific...
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    The Prince's Cairn marks the traditional spot from where Prince Charles Edward Stuart embarked for France from Scotland on 20 September 1746 following...
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    The Cairn o' Mount or Cairn o' Mounth is a hill in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, rising to 455 metres (1,493 ft). The B974 road crosses its summit, connecting...
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  • Shadows of Cairn is a side-scrolling platformer available for DOS and Windows 3.1x, where the player assumes the role of Quinn, an apprentice thief in...
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