What is recorded here

Eagle Mount Mote rises forty-three metres across in Ballynoe pasture, its steep earthen sides supporting a broad summit where cattle still trample the ancient soil. The fallen standing stone on the west edge and the concrete water trough at the base suggest the mound has served both worship and livestock for generations. Knockdoha remains a lived landscape rather than a dead ruin, human hands and animal feet continuing to shape what earlier builders raised.

In pasture, on top of a broad rise. A circular earthen mound (base diam. 42.8m) with steeply inclined sides (Wth 9.25m; H 5.5m) and a circular summit (23.9m N-S; 24.7m E-W) which rises up very gently towards the centre (Westropp 1916-17, 490-1). The mound is partially covered by scrub overgrowth but where not covered by overgrowth has been poached by cattle; a concrete water trough is located at the base of mound at SSW. Near the centre of the summit is a concrete OPW plinth, and toward its E side is an OS trigonometrical station. On the W side is a fallen standing stone (LI039-09902-). The site is known locally as Knockdoha (Seoighe 2000, 211). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 4/1973). See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 306/2 on 13/09/2002; 372/25 on 10/05/2003.

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