What is recorded here

Indicated is a degraded earthen ringfort in County Mayo pasture, shaped into a rough oval twenty by twenty-four metres across a south-facing slope. Its bank rises halfway around the circuit and cuts inward on the other, while opposite gaps at east and west admit tractors through what may have been an entrance. The interior was leveled on the southern half, and field stones still pile along parts of the rim. A second rath waits three hundred and forty metres southeast, visible across the coastal grass.

In pasture, straddling the edge of an E-W terrace on a S-facing slope; good views S−W over a wide expanse of coastal pasture. Slightly raised, roughly oval area (20m N-S; 24.5m E-W) defined by a degraded earthen bank. The bank (Wth 2.5-2.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) is quite well defined on the S half, and is built up on the external slope to compensate for the natural fall of ground. At NW−NE the bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.2m) is cut into rising ground and survives as an inward-facing scarp with a very slight external lip. There are two opposing breaks (Wth 3m) in the bank at E and W, which now provide tractor access to the interior. The break at the E may be the site of the original entrance. There are also a number of small eroded breaks around the circuit of the bank. The interior appears to have been built up on the S half to create a level area. Field clearance stone is piled on the bank in parts. Another rath (MA015-007----) is visible c. 340m to SE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 November 2018

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