What is recorded here

Ten paces across and half a metre high, the mound sits flat-topped on a low ridge in County Mayo, small enough to walk around in a minute yet old enough to belong before memory. Local tradition calls it a burial site, suggesting people shaped the earth to hold someone they loved rather than leaving that person scattered to rain and cattle. The ridge gives views in both directions, which may be why they chose it: a place where the dead could still face the world.

In pasture, located on a low E–W ridge with good views. Flat-topped, subcircular grass-covered mound (9.5m E–W; 9.7m N–S; H 0.4-0.5m), which appears to be of earthen construction. According to local tradition, it is a burial site. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 December 2021

A Neolithic burial mound, likely dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its location on a prominent ridge suggests ritual or ceremonial significance, common in Neolithic landscape practices.

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