What is recorded here

Ballybroony mound stands at the north-west edge of a rise, watching Nephin Mountain and the Nephin Beg range across open pasture. It has been levelled into a broad circular scar about nineteen metres wide, with angular stones still poking through the sod like broken teeth. Local memory calls it a síodan, suggesting people once shaped or valued the place before carts or hunger took its height. What remains is not much, but it still points west toward the mountains and refuses to be forgotten.

In pasture, located at the NW end of a rise, giving excellent views in all directions, with Nephin Mountain and the Nephin Beg range prominent on the far horizon to SW. This mound is not shown on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps. It has been damaged, and is now evident as a roughly circular, sod-covered area of disturbed ground (diam. c. 19m; H 0.55m at SE, 1m at NW) with an uneven surface of hunps and hollows, and much angular stones protruding from the sod. According to local information, it is the levelled remains of a mound or cairn, which was traditionally known as a ‘síodan’ (SMR file: pers. comm. Jim Gilvarry 1988 & 91). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 May 2019

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