What is recorded here

Laghtadawannagh, the Friars Grave, marked a buried life on a Mayo ridge before clearance destroyed the stone heap in the twentieth century. The lost monument may have held a wandering cleric, a forgotten farmer, or someone the community chose to remember without naming. One embedded stone still breaks the grass below the summit, preserving the shape of what disappeared.

In pasture, located on a ridge. This monument is represented on the 1837 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps as a small oblong feature, named ‘Friar’s Grave’ and ‘Laghtadawannagh’; it would appear to be the source of the townland name. According to local information, there was a low heap of stones at this location, measuring ‘about 8 feet [2.4m] by 4 feet [1.2m] and about 2 to 3 feet [0.6-0.9m] high’. It did not appear to have any formal structure. It was removed during land clearance in the 1970’s/80’s. A single stone (0.8m N-S; 0.7m E-W; T 0.2m) lies partly embedded in the ground just below the summit of the ridge, on the NW-facing slope, but it is unclear if this is a remnant of the monument. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 April 2018

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