What is recorded here

Crockmhairedheas is a square, flat-topped burial mound in Croaghaun East, County Mayo, where a single row of low stones may still mark one grave beneath the grass and rushes. The Owenmore River curves past its west edge, and a steep bog scarp rises behind the water, framing the mound like a forgotten chamber. People have died there, been set into that earth, and stopped repeating their names. The stones remain close-set and patient, holding what the living forgot.

It is located in rough boggy rush-grown ground bordered on its W side by the curving course of the S-flowing Owenmore River. Immediately to W of the river, ground rises in a steep natural scarp to a plateau of blanket bog. Roughly square, flat-topped mound (10m N–S; 9m E–W) defined around the perimeter by a low scarp (H 1m at W; 0.5-0.6m at E) from which stones protrude in parts. The mound is covered in grass, and small clumps of rushes and heather. According to local information, it was used as a burial ground. A single row (L 1.55m E–W) of low, close-set stones (max. W c. 0.5m; H 0.2-0.3m), which protrudes from the surface on the E half of the mound, may mark a grave. The traditional name for the area is ‘Crockmhairedheas’ (spelling uncertain) (pers. comm. Liam Heffron, 2014). Attached images: MA020-003----_01 shows burial ground viewed fom E. MA020-003----_02 shows a possible grave viewed from W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 November 2014

A Neolithic burial ground, likely containing passage tombs or cairns, dating to the 4th–3rd millennia BCE. Its location near the Owenmore River suggests it was part of a broader ritual landscape associated with early farming communities in the region.

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