What is recorded here

Enclosure in Carha is a modified hillock in County Mayo where a standing stone still leans slightly south of centre on a six-metre platform, framed by gorse and bramble. The Ox Mountains stretch east-northwest while Nephin looms southwest above flat wettish pasture, giving the place the feel of a chamber built for watching rather than hiding. People may have cut its slopes and set the stone there because the view demanded witness, turning a natural rise into a room with no walls.

Encompassing a natural rise, which offers panoramic views, with the Ox Mountains defining the far horizon from E−NW, and Nephin Mountain looming at SW. It overlooks an expanse of flat wettish pasture, where a (MA031-010----), now levelled, is located c. 50m to SW. This monument is not shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map, but it is shown on the 1922 edition as a circular hachured area, with a standing stone (MA031-011002-) in the centre. It is evident as a domed rise or hillock (c. 30m E−W; c. 20m N−S), with steeply sloping sides on the W half and a more gradual slope at E. A scarp (Wth. 1.2m; H 0.45m) is cut into the base of the slope at N−NE. Remnants of a low scarp (H 0.3-0.4m) defines the flat top of the hillock NE−SW, giving it the appearance of a platform (diam. c. 6m), on which the standing stone is located slightly off-centre to S. This may be a natural hillock, which has been modified to form a setting for the standing stone. It is partly obscured by gorse and bramble. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 June 2018

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