What is recorded here

Indicated is a faded ringfort in County Mayo, Ireland, where a low scarp still marks a circular home now lost beneath improved pasture. The earth rose eighteen centimetres at the southeast and barely three at the east, suggesting that the fort faced the sky rather than defending against every direction. Cattle may have walked across its hearth while people remembered only that the ground changed hands there.

In level improved pasture. Recorded as an enclosure – probably a ringfort – with a later field boundary running across the interior from ENE to SW on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (1837) and shown on the slightly later OS 25-inch map (1893) defined by a scarp. A circular area (diam. 25m) is defined by an enclosing scarp (H 0.3m at E; H 0.8m at S; H 1.8m at SE) which is traceable from ENE-SE-S) and is faintly visible at N. A later field boundary overlies the perimeter at SW. The W-half of the interior is generally level while the E-half slopes slightly down towards the E. The field boundary recorded crossing the interior on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (1837) had been removed. Date of visit: 28-7-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

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