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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Indicated is a thirty-metre fairy fort on an east-facing slope in County Mayo, sitting just north of a larger ringfort. Its thin earthen bank rises only sixty centimetres, yet the shallow circle still catches the eye in open pasture. The eastern gap suggests an entrance, though no path remains to mark it. People may have walked that gap during festivals or simply avoided it after dark, believing the land belonged elsewhere.
In pasture, on E-facing slope, 150m N of ringfort (MA100-137----). Circular area (30m N-S; 30m E-W), defined by earthen bank (H 0.6m), levelled S to N. Gap (Wth 3m) on E, possible entrance. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 91. Date of upload: 13 February 2013

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