What is recorded here

One field in Ballymaddock still darkens its grass in a perfect ring each summer, marking the buried hearts of people who stopped running when the chase became endless. The stones above may have crashed or rolled away, but the ground remembers the shape of what it swallowed.

Reference to a possible cairn around the base of which a regular circle, indicated by a darker colour in the grass, was visible (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 276). Unlocated cairn within townland, described by Roe as a carn containing human bones, now destroyed (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 276). Described in the History of Queens County in an adjoining field to a rath in Ballymaddock there is 'a sort of elevation , having some disjointed stones on the summit, is to be seen, and around the cone, in a very regular circle, the grass always partakes of a similar dark colour, about the months of June and July. This is thought to have been a place of interment, and the upper surface somewhate resembles a dilapidated cairn (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 276). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.