What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined earthen ringfort on a Mayo ridge, built to watch every approach because visibility mattered more than size. Its bank still rises higher on the south side where the defensive slope remained strongest, while the north-east edge has collapsed into a shallow scarp. A broad terrace outside marks the lost ditch, and a slumped section at the east may have been the entrance. The centre is buried under field clearance debris, brambles and nettles, but the hawthorn ringing the bank keeps the shape alive in the pasture.

In pasture, prominently sited on top of a low ridge, with very good views in all directions. Raised circular area (c. 37m NW–SE; c. 32m NE–SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 4m, c. 5m at SSW; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 2-2.4m at SW), reduced NNW–E to a scarp (H 0.7m). The bank is low and dilapidated internally, with remnants of internal stones facing at W and NW. The external slope is highest on the S half. An infilled fosse can be traced outside the bank on the S half; it takes the form of a low broad terrace (Wth c. 6m) at S. The entrance may have been at ENE where there is a low slumped section of bank, now partly obscured by an uprooted tree. Much of the centre of the rath is covered by a large dump of field clearance debris, engulfed in brambles and nettles. The bank is lightly ringed with hawthorn. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 May 2022

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