Pirpahar is a hill, it derived its name from a Mohammadan Saint, also known as Pir. On the top of the hill, there are situated 3 tombs. There are many beautiful inscriptions are present on the rocks, which is dedicated to Marry Anne Backett, who was an English composer.
Dariapur is about 6 km of the Munghyr Town. It has a hill called Pir Pahar on the name of an old Mohammedan saint, from the top of which offers an excellent view of Monghyr and its surroundings. There is a grave of this saint on the hilltop,whose name is no longer remembered, though devotees occasionally come to worship at his grave, now in ruins. There are two old tombs side by side at the foot of the hill. On one of them has an inscription to the memory of one Mary Anne Beckett, who died in 1832, while the other has a damaged inscription showing, till a few years ago, that it is in memory of a person named Only; the portion containing the name has now disappeared.The former is somewhat unconventional in form and character, consisting of a mausoleum surrounded by four walls open to the sky, and has a memorial tablet inserted in the northern wall, with the uncommon and not unaffecting inscription “Be still, she sleeps”. It is not known who was Mary Anne Beckett , but several legends are current about the manner in which she met her death. One is to the effect that she was a young girl who was killed when riding down the hill, another is that she threw herself down the hill owing to some love trouble. Another account says that she was the Kashmirian wife of a Colonel Beckett. Nothing is known about the person to whom the other tomb was erected, but Sir Warren Hastings D’Oyly, formerly Collector of Munger, to whom a reference was made, states that it is possible that he or she was a relative of a D’Oyly, who was formerly an indigo planter in the district. The inscription which is now obliterated shows that he or she died in 183-, i.e., between 1830 and 1840.
On the top of the hill there is an old house which may be identified with the residence which, according to the Sair-Ul-Mutakharin, was erected for himself by Ghurghin Khan, the Armenian general of the Nawab Kasim Ali Khan. This is referred to in the Sair-Ul-Mutakharin as the house on the hill of Sitakund, though the sacred springs of Sitakund are two miles away and we learn that when Vansittart, the Governor of the East India Company, visited Munger in 1762, it was assigned to him for his residence. Thirty years later it appears to have been known as Belvedere and a pleasing description of it is given by Mr. Twining in “Travels in India a Hundred years ago”. Former Collectors of Munger resided in this house, which commands one of the finest views one can obtain along the Ganga. Both house and hill are now the property of the sons of the late Babu Upendra Nath Mandal of Chandernagore. Close by, on the summit of another small hill, is a house belonging to Babu Ram Lal Mukherjee, a public-spirited Bengali gentleman, who placed a large sum at the disposal of Government for the relief of the distressed in times of famine and flood.
According to Jayaswal Research Institute Archaeological Explorations this site belongs to Medieval period.
