A cairn is a man-made pile of stones.
Cairn may also refer to:
Places
- Cairn O' Mounth (), a high mountain pass in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Cairn Toul (from the Gaelic ', "Hill of the barn"), the 4th highest mountain in Scotland and the 2nd highest point in the western massif of the Cairngorms
- Cairnbaan (), a village in Argyll and Bute, western Scotland.
- Cairness House, a country house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, built in the 1790s in the Neoclassical style
- Cairneyhill, a small village near Dunfermline in west Fife, Scotland
- Cairngaan, Wigtownshire, the southernmost settlement in Scotland
- Cairnie Hill, a hill in the Ochils, in Fife, Scotland
- Cairnlea, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne in Australia
- (English: Cairnburgh More), one of the Treshnish Isles in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland
- Cairnpapple Hill, a major Neolithic and Bronze Age ritual site in central lowland Scotland
- Cairnryan (, ), a small village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- Cairn University, a private Christian university in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania
- Cairn Water, a river in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- Carn Clonhugh ( or '), a hill in County Longford, Republic of Ireland
- Carncastle or Cairncastle, a small village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
People
- John Elliott Cairnes (1823âÂÂ1875), an Irish economist, described as the "last of the classical economists"
Arts, entertainment, and media
Other uses
- Cairn circle, another name for a bowl barrow, a type of Neolithic and Bronze Age burial mound or tumulus
- Cairn Energy, one of Europe's leading independent oil and gas exploration and development companies
- Cairn Terrier, one of the oldest of the terrier breeds, originating in the Scottish Highlands and recognized as one of Scotland's earliest working dogs
- Cairn Valley Light Railway, a former rural railway line built to connect the Cairn Valley with the main railway network at Dumfries, closed in the 1940s
See also