What is recorded here

Carnakit is a grass-covered barrow at the highest point of a ridge in County Roscommon, traditionally identified as the burial place of Ceat Mac Magach or Cairbre Cinn Ceat. Its circular mound sits on a raised rectangular platform, suggesting deliberate preparation rather than casual dumping. A nearby fulacht fia and another barrow imply the ridge served ritual or communal life, not merely burial. The stones revetting part of the mound hint that people kept returning to mark, protect or remember the dead.

At the highest point of a WNW-ESE ridge. Traditionally this is the burial place of Ceat Mac Magach, one of Queen Meave's warriors, or of Cairbre Cinn Ceat, a Fir Bolg king (Gormley 1989, 17). Circular grass-covered earthen mound (diam. 8m E-W; 7.4m N-S; H 1.2-1.7m) which has been revetted with stones (H 0.8m) N-SE. It is situated on a subrectangular grass-covered platform (dims 11.5m E-W; c. 14m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.8m) at N and E (H c. 0.2m), but merging into the ground elsewhere, and which may indicate the boundary of land reclaimation. Barrow (RO021-042020-) is c. 210m to the N, fulacht fia (RO021-042022-) is c. 100m to the SE, and the barrow is surrounded by the field system (RO021-042023-). (Knox 1914a, 38-9; Herity 1983, 137) See the attached view from the SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

A circular fulacht fia, likely dating to the Early Medieval period; its significance is linked to local legend associating it with figures from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

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