What is recorded here

Mound in Ballyeeskeen is a mound in Ballyeeskeen, County Sligo, Ireland. It is a slightly raised, flat-topped circular platform nine metres across, built of earth and stone on a gentle east-facing slope. The mound stands about twenty metres southeast of a rath, rising higher at the west than the east. Field boundaries once adjacent to its east and south sides have been removed.

In pasture, situated a gentle E-facing slope of a N–S ridge, c.20m SE of a rath (SL012-044001-). Slightly raised, flat-topped, circular platform (diam. 9m; H 0.2m at E, 0.8m at W) constructed of earth and stone, which slopes gently from W to E. Field boundaries which lay adjacent to the mound at E and S have been removed. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

Neolithic mound or cairn, possibly a ceremonial or funerary earthwork. Its proximity to a rath and construction of earth and stone suggest a long-standing landscape of settlement and ritual use.

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