It is the kind of story that attaches itself to a place and quietly persists, passed on without documentation, gaining a little weight with each retelling. What lends it some credibility is the physical evidence still visible at the site: a tree-ring, the circular depression or raised outline left when a mature tree falls or is removed, with a small mound sitting within its eastern quadrant. Mounds of this kind, even modest ones, are frequently associated with burial activity in the Irish landscape, and the combination of local memory and surviving earthwork is enough to mark the spot as something worth noting.