No mound, no stone, no depression. The only thing keeping the memory of it alive is local tradition, and that tradition holds that the person interred here was a highwayman.

The association is an intriguing one. Highwaymen occupied an ambiguous place in Irish popular memory, figures who sat outside the law but sometimes attracted a degree of folk sympathy, and burials connected to them tend to exist at the margins of the official record. This one sits firmly in that category. There is no confirmed archaeology, no dated material, and no documentation of who the individual might have been or when he lived. What has survived is the story itself, passed along and attached to this particular hilltop, now cloaked in forestry plantation that has further obscured whatever the ground might once have revealed. The site is recorded as a burial on the basis of that local belief rather than on any physical evidence, which places it in a category of places that archaeology acknowledges but cannot fully verify.