What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined fairy fort in County Mayo, marked by a stone bank, scattered boulders and a small central rise now hidden beneath grass and bramble. It sits on an open pasture rise, looking out over wet ground and the distant Trimoge River, while a tractor still drives through its eastern gap. The fort has been made useful by people, yet it keeps its old shape, as if remembering the day it was built and the hands that turned its earth.

In pasture, on a rise with very good views over a gently undulating landscape of rough pasture and wettish ground, with the Trimoge River 400m to NE. Roughly circular, slightly raised area (37.8m E−W; 35m N−S) defined on the N half by a dilapidated bank/scarp (ext. H 1.3m at NNW, 0.8m at W) and on the S half by an earth and stone bank (Wth c. 2m; int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.4m), adapted to serve as a field boundary and topped with a low stone wall at S. Several large boulders –most likely field clearance -are piled along the bank/scarp. The interior is level, but ground surface is uneven and hummocky. It is crossed centrally by a field wall on an ESE−WSW axis. Roughly in the centre of the interior, there is a low circular rise (6.5m E−W; c. 7m N−S; H 0.4m) with a slightly hollow centre. It is obscured by long grass and brambles and is crossed centrally by the E−W field wall. A low area in the scarp at NE is flanked on each side by an upright slab, possibly an original entrance. Another possible entrance is at E where a gap (Wth 3m) now allows tractor access to the S half of the interior. The rath is ringed with hawthorn. Several clumps of brambles are spreading across the interior. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 September 2021

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