This one sits quietly in level pastureland in north County Dublin at roughly the 300-foot contour, a circular, round-topped mound fifteen metres across and three metres high, with nothing around it to suggest why it was placed exactly here. What makes it quietly odd is that absence of a fosse, the encircling ditch that typically accompanies a mound of this type and helps define its purpose. Without one, the site resists easy categorisation, sitting somewhere between a burial monument, a territorial marker, and something we simply no longer have the vocabulary to name.

The record, compiled by Geraldine Stout and updated by Christine Baker for upload in October 2014, draws on a 1975 survey by Healy that noted the same lack of a surrounding ditch. Beyond that, the documentary trail is thin, which is itself informative. The mound has survived well, sitting on relatively flat ground in a field that slopes only gently from west to east, and that good preservation suggests it has never attracted the kind of sustained attention, agricultural or antiquarian, that tends to disturb such things. The stone visible along the western base and at the top hints at some form of internal structure, though no excavation appears to have been undertaken to clarify the matter.

The field is working pasture, so access depends on the goodwill of the landowner and the season. Cattle poaching, the soft churning of ground by hooves, has left its mark at the summit and along the western edge, so underfoot conditions after wet weather can be unpleasant. The real reason to seek the place out may be less the mound itself than the views it affords, or rather, the views it shares with its likely contemporaries. To the north, the ridge of Fourknocks is visible; Fourknocks is a Neolithic passage tomb complex, a type of monument in which a long stone-lined passage leads to a central chamber, and its presence on the horizon here is not incidental. Mallahow lies to the east. Whether these alignments were intentional is unanswerable, but standing at the mound, you are at least looking at the same landscape those who built it would have known.