What is recorded here

Indicated is a low earthen mound on a gentle pasture slope in County Kildare, marked by a shallow fosse and still cloaked in hawthorns. Local story claims the earth was thrown up over two bodies consumed in a plague-shed near Inch Castle, turning an ordinary field into a place of remembered loss. The mound remains small, quiet and exposed, inviting wonder about whether love, fear or mercy shaped the version still repeated there.

On the crest of a gentle E-facing pasture slope. According to Fitzsymons (1906, 104), ‘This moat, according to the present version of the story, was thrown up over the spot where the two bodies in the plague-shed were consumed. The hawthorns of the ballad are still growing upon it’. The ballad referred to is the Ballad of Oonah More and is associated with Inch Castle (KD035-026----) some 250m to the NW. A low sub-circular earthen mound (surface diams. 5.2m E-W; 4.3m N-S; H 0.7-1m) is enclosed by a shallow fosse NW-NE and SE-SW (D 0.1m; base Wth 2m; ext diam. N-S 14.8m). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 13 December 2013

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