What is recorded here

Indicated is a D-shaped fairy fort in County Mayo pasture, its curving earthen bank still standing half a metre high beside a straight field wall. The ground falls away towards bog, and a shallow dip outside the bank hints at a forgotten fosse. Cattle graze the platform now, but the shape remains clear enough to suggest people once drew a line around themselves and refused to leave it empty.

In pasture, located in undulating terrain. Ground falls away gently to SE towards and expanse of bog. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) crossed to SE of centre by a field boundary/townland boundary on a NW–SE axis; it is not shown on later map editions. The remains consist of a roughly D-shaped platform (28m NW–SE; 16.6m NE–SW to Td. boundary) defined on the curving side at NW by an earthen bank (Wth 1.5m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.8m), reduced at N–SSE to a scarp. A dip (Wth 2-3m) in ground level outside the bank at NW may be a fosse. The straight side at SW is defined by the field wall/townland boundary, to S of which no surface trace of the S arc of the enclosure can be seen. At farm track clips the N–NNE edge of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 June 2022

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