Boundary mound, Coppanaghmore, Co. Cavan
Co. Cavan |
Ritual/Ceremonial
On the line where County Cavan gives way to County Leitrim, there is a mound in the townland of Coppanaghmore that does not appear on any Ordnance Survey map from the nineteenth century, neither the 1836 edition nor the 1876 revision.
Its absence from those surveys is itself a kind of clue. The mound is thought to be a boundary marker, a low earthen feature raised specifically to make a territorial limit legible on the ground, the sort of feature that would have been meaningful to people who needed to know, with some precision, exactly where one jurisdiction ended and another began.
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