What is recorded here

Labbyeslin in County Leitrim may hide Eilslin’s Bed beneath a forgotten graveyard, though no stones have ever reappeared. The name itself points to a megalithic chamber, not merely a burial place, suggesting human hands shaped the land before memory faded. Whitethorn trees may still mark the lost alignment, waiting for someone patient enough to listen for the shape beneath the grass.

There is a late nineteenth century reference to a graveyard in the townland of Labbyeslin that had whitethorn trees, and from which the townland got its name (Williams, TCD MSS 1483 (G.S. 17-20). The name Labbyeslin from Leaba Eislinne – Eilslin’s Bed – suggests a megalithic structure rather than a graveyard. There are no other references, not even in the Schools Manuscripts, and if a graveyard exists it remains unlocated. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April, 2017

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