Lismahon mound, or barrow if you like, is 100 metres in off the Ballymaglassan road that runs south-west out of Batterstown. It’s not much but it’s on a mate’s uncle’s land and I’ve been meaning to check it out for a while.
I’d been here before, 19 years ago, and hadn’t bothered getting into the field. At the junction of a couple of drains, nowadays it’s completely overgrown and difficult to interpret. It has been mentioned that it could be spoil from the digging of the drains, but the landowner, Mattie Nolan, refers to it as a moat (motte? or mound?) and I’d prefer to go with his interpretation. That said, it is only with excavation that its provenance could be realised.