What is recorded here

Indicated is a buried fairy fort in County Mayo, hidden beneath hazel and blackthorn on a hill that drops steeply toward damp pasture. Its earthen bank still stands two metres high at the south-west edge, marking a circular platform wide enough for a small life or a large secret. Local tradition speaks of an underground passage inside the rath, suggesting the fort may have been more than a boundary stone or abandoned field mark.

In pasture, in a dense thicket of overgrowth, located on a hill, with a steep fall of ground to S–SW and a gentler slope to N. There are good views to N and SE over lowlying, damp pasture. Raised, roughly circular platform (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 6m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2m, at SW) with a low internal lip and a broad external slump, enhanced at S−SW by the hill slope. Remnants of external stone facing are evident at SW, probably the result of incorporation of the rath into a later field system. There is a terrace (Wth 3.8m) immediately outside the bank at S–SW, defined on its outer edge by a scarp (H 1m), with a slight internal lip (int. H 0.1m), which appears to be cut into a steep natural fall of ground. These features may be the remains of a fosse and external bank. There is a local tradition of a Man-made underground passage (MA072-049001-) in the rath. Densely covered in hazel, hawthorn and blackthorn scrub. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 April 2021

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