What is recorded here

Half a football pitch wide, the rath in Maghera still holds its shape on a sunny slope, though gorse and forgetting have chewed through its banks. People dug holes inside it at some point, perhaps hunting buried treasure or simply stealing soil for their own gardens. The fairies never left; they only stopped being visible to those who stopped believing.

On a S-facing slope in undulating and partly cleared pasture. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps. Listed as ‘enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A subcircular rath (24m E-W; 22m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.3; ext. H 0.6m) that was heavily overgrown at SW and W; no clear inner or outer facing could be seen. A stone field wall clipped it at NE. The interior, which sloped to the SSW, was partly overgrown with gorse. Multiple hollows within the gorse suggested that it had been dug into in the past. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack Date of upload: 29 June 2022

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