What is recorded here

Faughanhill rises above flat country as Ocha, the traditional resting place of Niall of the Nine Hostages, while a thirty-five metre enclosure sits on its south-facing slope. The hill has therefore watched the plain, received memory, and perhaps held people, animals or ceremony before modern tools revealed its lines. Its greatness is not in size but in position: a marked circle on a hill already given to legend.

Situated on top of a prominent hill overlooking a fairly level landscape. The hill, known in Old Irish as Ocha, is the traditional burial place of Niall of the Nine Hostages (Morris 1926; Byrne 1973, 77). Geophysical survey was undertaken on the eastern part of the hill in2013 by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project when a large number of features were recorded (Dowling 2015b, 17-20). An enclosure (diam. c. 35m) defined by a single fosse feature is on the S-facing slope of the hill, c. 40m from the enclosure (ME024-022002-). (Dowling and Cahill Wilson 2014) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January 2016

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