What is recorded here

Enclosure in Ballinlabaun is a vanished fort reduced to a shallow breath in Mayo grassland. Its circular shadow is nineteen metres wide, barely higher than a ankle stone, while a post and wire fence cuts across the place where its south edge disappeared. The land has forgotten the shape, but the grass still holds the pressure of hands that built it.

Located on a low rise in rolling grassland. This enclosure, which is known locally as the site of a 'fort', is not shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. The enclosure has been levelled, and its outline is poorly defined. It is evident as a roughly circular, slightly raised area (diam. c. 18-20m) defined at NNW-E by a low scarp (H 0.4m) and elsewhere by low, irregular curving undulations, merging at S with an area of rough, uneven ground. It appears to have been partly incorporated into field boundaries at NE, S and W in the past, but these too have been levelled, and are now barely discernible. A post and wire fence traverses the S edge. There is a rath (MA038-009----) is 120m to W. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 19 August 2019

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