What is recorded here

Derrynamuck holds a faint square of dead men beneath grass and forgetting. The earthen bank has thinned to a whisper, yet the shape remains: twenty-six metres of deliberate enclosure on level ground beside Lough Alick. People walked past it for generations, some to bury, some merely to cross the field. The lake keeps its distance, the stream carries rain northward, and the forgotten remain marked only by the slight rise where human hands once drew a boundary around the dead.

In the SW corner of a pasture field, located on level ground at the base of the E-facing slope of a ridge. There is a lake, Lough Alick, 225m to W, the outflow stream of which is 100m to N. A slightly raised area (26m E-W; 26.5m N-S), roughly square in plan with rounded corners, defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m, at NE). The bank is low and degraded, best preserved at NE. At S the bank is incorporated into a later field fence, which curves slightly. The interior is level and grass-covered. According to local tradition, this enclosure was used as a burial ground; no graves are visible. A disused trackway, leading to a ruined vernacular stone cottage at SW, skirts the W side of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 April 2020

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