Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Muckduff, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Muckduff
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave of the Black Pig
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave of the Black Pig
- Coordinates
- 54.19952, -9.08911
- SMR number
- SL016-043----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated atop a NE-SW ridge in undulating pasture. Circular, flat-topped mound (diam. at base 13.5m, of top 8.5m; H 1.5m) of earth and stone. It is said that at the time of St. Patrick there was a ferocious boar in Ulster. He was hunted with such vigour that he left Ulster and sought refuge in 'the valley of the Black Pig, a little vale in the county Sligo' where he was finally caught and killed. It is said that he is buried beneath the mound (Wood-Martin 1887-8, 292).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.