No stone, no flag, no inscription. What remains is only a name on an old map and a few lines in a nineteenth-century record book describing something that was already, even then, being quietly forgotten.

The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1838 marks a spot on what was known as Monument Hill, south of the town, with the plain label "Monument". The OS Name Books for County Mayo offer a little more: the hill took its name from "a little heap of stones collected where a person was killed", and somewhere nearby stood a flag bearing an inscription. The entry calls it "a remarkable hill", which suggests the feature was locally notable at the time of the survey, even if surveyors could offer no further detail about who died there, or when, or why the stones were gathered. This kind of cairn, stones piled at the site of a violent or sudden death, was a widespread custom in Ireland and elsewhere, each addition by a passerby understood as a small act of respect or remembrance. By the time later map editions were produced, the monument had been dropped from the record entirely. Today, there is no visible trace at ground level.