What is recorded here

Faughanhill rises above a flat landscape as Ocha, the traditional burial place of Niall of the Nine Hostages. Beneath its summit, two ring-ditches overlap a broad enclosure, marking a place where memory and structure still entangle. The hill does not merely hold a grave; it shapes the border between the living field and the dead king’s claim.

Situated on top of a prominent hill overlooking a fairly level landscape. The hill, known in Old Irish as Ocha, is the traditional burial place of Niall of the Nine Hostages (Morris 1926; Byrne 1973, 77). Geophysical survey was undertaken on the eastern part of the hill in2013 by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project when a large number of features were recorded (Dowling 2015b, 17-20). Two ring-ditches on the summit overlap the defining fosse feature of an enclosure (diam. c. 35m). (Dowling and Cahill Wilson 2014) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January, 2016

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