What is recorded here

Indicated is a small embanked barrow in Mayo pasture, its flat top spanning thirteen metres beneath the looming shadow of Nephin Mountain. Hawthorn roots still clutch fragments of the stony bank, holding what rain and time have taken elsewhere. The chamber may have held a dead person, a treasure, or merely the pride of a family who believed they would be remembered.

In pasture, located below the crest of a N–S ridge, close to the E–facing slope. Nephin Mountain looms to SSW and the Nephin Beg range defines the skyline at S–W. Slightly raised, flat-topped circular area (13m E–W; 12.5m N–S) defined by remnants of a stony earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m). The bank survives sporadically, in short, discrete sections, mainly where it has been protected by the roots of hawthorn bushes; elsewhere it is eroded to a low scarp (H 0.3m). It is poorly preserved. It may be the remains of a mound barrow; the diameter is small for a rath. A short straight length of E-W bank (L 6m; Wth 1.2m; H 0.3m), with a hawthorn bush growing on it, lies 2.6m to S of the barrow. There is no indication that this curved around the barrow; it may be the remnant of a field fence. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 July 2019

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). This monument represents an early form of megalithic tomb construction in Ireland, significant for understanding prehistoric funerary practices and social organisation in the region.

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