What is recorded here

Thirty years of scrub have swallowed the shallow pit, yet its rounded shadow still breaks the green slope near Ballyguileataggle. People may have dug gravel for local roads or simply taken water from a hidden spring. The land kept the hole but lost the reason, turning human effort into a quiet mystery beneath the grass.

In rough pasture on N-facing slope, 95m E of townland boundary with Ballyguileataggle. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sunken rectangular-shaped area or hollow depression (dims. c. 18m N-S x 18m E-W) in the NE corner of field transected at N and E post-1700 field boundaries running NW-SE and N-S. Monument visible as a scrub-covered roughly circular shaped area transected at N and E by levelled field boundaries on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. Doubtful antiquity could be the remains of a small quarry or gravel pit. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 17 April 2021

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