What is recorded here

Faughanhill rises above a flat landscape as Ocha, the traditional resting place of Niall of the Nine Hostages. A ring-ditch lies within a larger enclosure on its eastern slope, marking a small circular space from the Late Iron Age. The hill still holds that old boundary between the living world and memory.

Situated on top of a prominent hill overlooking a fairly level landscape. The hill, known in Old Irish as Ocha, is the traditional burial place of Niall of the Nine Hostages (Morris 1926; Byrne 1973, 77). Geophysical survey was undertaken on the eastern part of the hill in2013 by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman” Ireland’ project when a large number of features were recorded (Dowling 2015b, 17-20). Three circular features (diam. 10-12m) defined by fosses or palisade trenches can be identified. This ring-ditch is overlapping the perimeter of enclosure (ME024-022002-) and largely within the enclosure. (Dowling and Cahill Wilson 2014) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 January, 2016

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