What is recorded here

Skulls and bones surfaced between Mullaghlinn and Cleggadinna during nineteenth-century digging, prompting locals to call the second hill the hill of skulls. Tradition still claims a forgotten battle emptied its victims into that soil. The earth kept the danger hidden long enough to startle people who broke it open.

Bones and skulls unearthed between Mullaghlinn and Cleggadinna - 'hill of the skulls' - in the nineteenth century. Local tradition records a battle nearby, possible mass grave. (Stubbs 1889, 274) The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 July 2007

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