What is recorded here

Quarrying removed the ridge but preserved the grave, revealing a domed mound and stone slab marking a famine burial in County Mayo. The man and woman travelled roads during collapse; she died at that slope. They cut her into the living rock and set the slab against it. Decades later machines took the ridge yet stopped before her marker. The mound stands alone in pasture, a road passing within sight. What was hidden by earth and distance became visible when the ridge disappeared. Her name is lost, but the stone still points to her.

In improved pasture, at the base of a quarried out E-facing ridge slope. A road borders the E side of the field. According to local tradition, a man and a woman were travelling the roads during the time of the Famine. The woman died and was buried at this location. The grave was dug into the slope of the ridge and marked by a large stone slab, which was set against the ridge slope. In the late 20th-century the ridge was removed by quarrying. However, the location of the grave was left largely undisturbed. It is evident now as an isolated domed mound of earth (diam. 15m; H 2m) with the stone slab (1.1m x 0.55m; T 0.14m) lying on top. This mound is not ancient; it was artificially created during the reclamation works in order to preserve the location of the burial. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 June 2022

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