What is recorded here

Kilmannin’s mound sits on an esker above a hidden basin of boggy ground, its flat top small enough for one person to occupy while hazel scrub crowds the western slope. The ridge may have marked a boundary, a burial, or a place where people watched weather move across the valley. Its shallow shape and earthen layers suggest it has been lived around for a long time, changed by feet, rain and pasture rather than forgotten in a single moment.

In sharply undulating, hilly pasture, located on an esker overlooking a natural basin of boggy ground to W. There is a dip in ground level c. 50m to SE into a natural water-filled depression. The steep W-facing slopes of the ridge are covered in hazel scrub. The views are not extensive. Circular, sod-covered mound (5.5m N–S; 5m E–W; H 0.35m at W, 0.5m at E) with a flat top (diam. 2-2.5m) which has a hint of a raised lip at W. It was not possible to determine the composition of the mound but the upper layers, at least, appears to be largely earthen. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 June 2022

A Neolithic passage tomb; its location on an esker suggests it was deliberately sited for visibility and ritual significance in a landscape of natural features.

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