What is recorded here

Indicated is a broad oval mound in Mayo pasture, twenty-one metres long and two and a half metres high, with Nephin Mountain looming behind it. Field boundaries still follow its curve instead of cutting through it, suggesting people recognised the shape long before measuring it. Hazel, hawthorn and bramble now strangle its southern arc, turning an old landmark into a living knot of shadow and green resistance.

In pasture, in the SE corner of a subrectangular field, located on a rise in an area of undulating terrain. and The location provides extensive views to N over rolling pasture, with Nephin Mountain looms on the far horizon to SSW. Oval mound or cairn (21m N–S; 17m E–W; H 2.5m at N) of earth and stones, with a domed profile, slightly flattened at top. The base of the cairn at E–S is incorporated into a later field boundary, which respects its curve, and another field boundary, oriented roughly N-S axis, skirts the W side of the cairn. Vestiges of an E-W field fence also appear to traverse the N-facing slope. Though classed here as a cairn, it is in fact uncertain if it is constructed predominately of earth or stones. It is largely sod-covered, with dense hazel and hawthorn scrub on the S arc, and clumps of gorse and brambles on top. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 August 2019

A portal dolmen; likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its position on a prominent rise suggests a ceremonial or ritual significance, possibly linked to landscape orientation and long-distance visibility.

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