What is recorded here
Fear Breige, the Hardy Man, still holds the boundary line above Ballaghmore, though pine roots have wrapped his stones and denied him sky. The forest took the marker back, not with violence but patience, growing through the gap where human hands had placed stone upon stone. What was built to be seen has become a rumor underfoot, remembered only by the shape of shadow the canopy casts at dusk.
Possible cairn visible on aerial photographs (GSI, S 25/6). No visible on ground. A possible enclosure (LA036-001001-) lay to SW.
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
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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