Farnoge Cairn (unclassified) is about 12km south-west of New Ross and 10km north of Waterford.
It is on top of Tory Hill, a notable local landmark, in a state forest and accessible by footpath from the west.
Both anciently vandalised and nominally christianised, little now remains other than a few large stones that were once, presumably, kerbs of a large structure.
Views are extensive but the day was not good.
We can speculate that a group of neolithic people saw Tory Hill when they explored the estuaries of the Barrow and Suir.
Perhaps as a first colonisation of the area but maybe they sailed along the coast from Ballynamona.
Having found the hill to be a good vantage point and a good place to be they would have cleared its top as well as other places in the locality.
Tory Hill offers a useful fit between the horizon and the sky so they would have regarded it as a holy place and built the cairn.
Then they established a Court Tomb and Standing Stone on the eastern hillslopes to give themselves better harmony with heaven.
It probably all took quite a while.
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