What is recorded here

Kilmannin is a lost circular mound in County Mayo, Ireland. It stood fifty feet wide, ringed by hazel trees on a gravel ridge, until quarrying removed it in the 1990s. Only an aerial photograph and local memory preserve the shape that men and machines erased.

This record refers to an roughly circular earthwork or mound which is not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps but is recorded in an aerial photograph (GSI M 93 -4; Roll 214, pr. 2; SMR file). According to local information, it consisted of a slightly raised circular feature (diam. c. 50 feet [c. 15m]), which was ringed by trees, mostly hazel. It was located on the top of a low natural gravel ridge. In the 1990’s the ridge and the circular feature were entirely quarried out and levelled. The location now consists of flat pasture. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 June 2022

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