What is recorded here

Mounds have never needed permission to be sacred. They rise from the earth like breath held too long, marking death and continuity in the same gesture. In Rahanavannagh, the ground still carries that old shape: a circle of soil large enough to hold several lives, high enough to be seen from a distance. What was buried there has stopped being a question and become a presence. The land remembers what people forget, and it does so without mercy.

A circular earthen mound (diam. c. 18.5m, H c. 2.5m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

A Neolithic burial mound; likely dates to the Early to Middle Bronze Age. Its presence indicates prehistoric settlement and funerary activity in the region.

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