What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Falleighter, County Mayo: a roughly circular grassy patch, 26 metres across, marked by a low broad bank now flattened to a gentle rise. It sits in wet, low ground at the corner of a pasture field, with a straight fence and ditch cutting across one edge. People may have lived there long before the field was drawn, then left the bank for cattle and rain to soften. The fairies, according to local story, kept what the fort was for.

In pasture, in the SE corner of a modern field, located in lowlying wet ground, overlooked by higher ground to SW, and by a low rise to NW. Views fair to N, restricted by rising ground elsewhere. Roughly circular, slightly raised area (26m NE–SW; 24m NW–SE) defined in a broad arc SW–NE by a levelled bank. The bank is reduced to a low rise (Wth 7-8m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m) with a broad external slump and a low internal lip, giving the enclosure a somewhat saucer-shaped profile. The E edge of the enclosure is truncated by a straight NNE−SSW field fence, bordered on its W side by a field ditch, and on its E side by a trackway. A straight NW−SE fence overlies the enclosing bank at SW. The interior is level and grassy. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

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