What is recorded here

Fairy forts like Cuilmore are earthen ringforts, human-made rath, not fairy buildings. This one sits on a north-south ridge in Mayo, overlooking a deep stream valley to the west. Its oval outline, about 45 by 62 metres, can still be traced despite ploughing and a field fence cutting across it. Hawthorn trees hold the remaining scarp at south-west, while two other rath lie within 200 metres, suggesting a settled ridge rather than a lonely mound.

In pasture, located on the top of a N−S ridge. There are good views, especially to W where the ground falls away for c. 100m gradually then more abruptly to a deep, narrow stream valley. This enclosure is not shown on the 1837 OS 6-inch map; it is indicated on the 1919 edition as a shallow hachured arc, curving S−N, and abutted at either end by field boundaries. It has been partly levelled but the outline of an oval area (c. 45m NW-SE; c. 62m NE-SW) can still be traced at ground level. It is defined by a low scarp at SSW−NNE, which is best preserved at SW−W (H 1.4m at W). The E−SE arc has been levelled to a barely discernible undulation. There is a broad, shallow curving depression (Wth c. 6m) outside the scarp at ESE−SSW, which may indicate an external fosse. A field fence, on an ESE-WNW axis, crosses the N half of the rath. Traces of cultivation ridges traverse the interior. Hawthorn trees grow on the enclosing scarp at S−W. A rath (MA062-032----) is located 195m to NW and another (MA062-068----) is located 180m to S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 January 2021

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