Burial mound

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a prominent rise in rolling average pasture. Nephin dominates the horizon to S.
This possible burial mound is named ‘Grave of Kings’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It is mentioned by John O’Donovan in the 1838 OS Letters as follows: ‘In the townland of Kildaree (Cill Dá Rig, church of the two kings) in the south east of this parish, there is a grave in which two kings…are said to be interred.’ (O’Flanagan 1927, 98).
It consists of a low mound or cairn (8m N–S; 4.8m E–W; H 1m at E, 0.5m at W) of jumbled stones. The upper layer of loose stones is most likely the result of field clearance. Three large rounded boulders protrude from the mound, one at the N edge, one roughly in the centre, and the largest at the SW edge. The mound is partly sod-covered, and largely obscured by clumps of brambles and blackthorn. A remnant of a N–S field fence lies 2m to W.

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 25 July 2019

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Mayo collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.