What is recorded here

No visible stones remain on the Lyracappul ridge today, yet the boundary between Barna and Ballynamuddagh still turns the air into a room with no walls. The mound vanished from satellite images but never left the land, suggesting measurement itself can be invisible when lived repeatedly. What disappeared is not the fact of the place, only the chance to point at it without trusting the story.

In rough pasture, on the ridge of Lyracappul, on the townland boundaries between Barna and Ballynamuddagh. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular area defined by a scarp. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 November 2021

A boundary cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age; such cairns were often used to mark territorial divisions and have broader significance in understanding early land use and social organization.

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