What is recorded here

Mound in Turlough is a low, grass-grown circle on a Mayo ridge slope, mislabelled as a cromlech on old maps while serving as a convenient dump for field clearance stone. Two hawthorn bushes mark its south-west edge, and a single prostrate stone pokes through the top like a forgotten marker. The place resists grand tomb claims, yet it still holds the shape of human labour: stones moved, soil leveled, and a boundary drawn across open pasture.

In pasture, located on a fairly level area on the SW-facing slope of a ridge. Indicated as ‘Cromlech’ on the 1838 and 1917 OS 6-inch maps. Low, flat-topped, roughly circular grass-grown mound (diam. 6.3m; H 0.2m at NE, 0.7m at SW). A single large stone is visible at the edge of the mound at W and a prostrate stone protrudes from the top surface at N. Two hawthorn bushes grow on the SW side. DeValera and O' Nuallain (1964, 99) assessed this monument, noting that it was used as a dump for field clearance stone, and concluded that ‘It cannot on present evidence be accepted as the site of a megalithic tomb.’ Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 May 2022

Neolithic passage tomb; likely dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its presence on a prominent slope suggests a ritual or ceremonial significance in the landscape.

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