What is recorded here

Grave of the Black Pig is a cairn, unclassified in Muckduff, County Sligo, Ireland. The circular, flat-topped mound rises 1.5m above a NE-SW ridge in undulating pasture, measuring 13.5m at its base and 8.5m across the top. A tradition claims a ferocious boar fled Ulster during the time of St. Patrick, was killed in this valley, and lies buried beneath the earth and stone.

Situated atop a NE-SW ridge in undulating pasture. Circular, flat-topped mound (diam. at base 13.5m, of top 8.5m; H 1.5m) of earth and stone. It is said that at the time of St. Patrick there was a ferocious boar in Ulster. He was hunted with such vigour that he left Ulster and sought refuge in 'the valley of the Black Pig, a little vale in the county Sligo' where he was finally caught and killed. It is said that he is buried beneath the mound (Wood-Martin 1887-8, 292). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

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