Mound, Magheraghanrush, Co. Sligo

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Mound, Magheraghanrush, Co. Sligo

In the elevated rocky pasture of Magheraghanrush in County Sligo, a low circular mound sits on a gentle south-south-west-facing slope, easy enough to miss and difficult to date with certainty.

It is a modest thing in terms of scale: roughly twelve metres across at the base, narrowing to a flat top of about six metres, and rising no more than 0.85 metres at its highest point. That variation in height is itself a small puzzle, caused not by any deliberate design but by the natural slope of the ground beneath it, which means the mound appears taller when approached from the north than from the south.

The mound is constructed from earth and rubble limestone, and there is no fosse, the encircling ditch commonly associated with earthworks of this kind, visible at ground level. What makes its situation quietly curious is that it does not stand alone. A second mound of comparable character lies just thirty metres to the south-south-east, the two of them occupying the same elevated, stony ground in a kind of understated pairing. Whether they share an origin or a purpose is not recorded, but their proximity suggests they were not placed here independently of one another.

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