What is recorded here

Alteen’s boundary mound is a low, ill-defined circle of peat barely thirty centimetres high, marking the border between Cavan and Fermanagh in rough mountain terrain. It belongs to a series of mounds and cairns laid across the divide, yet time and weather have worn it into a shallow dish rather than a proud ridge. People may have walked past it for centuries, reading the county line in a slight rise instead of a wall. What remains is small enough to step over, but it still separates two names for the same dark land.

In rough mountainous terrain. One of a series of mounds and cairns which mark the border between counties Cavan and Fermanagh. Remains comprise a low, roughly circular, ill-defined, poorly preserved mound (diam. c. 15.5m; H. c. 0.3m) composed mainly of peat. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008

A Bronze Age boundary mound; part of a series marking the ancient territorial divide between counties Cavan and Fermanagh. Such mounds are significant as early landscape markers and reflect prehistoric concepts of territorial organisation.

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