What is recorded here

Indicated is a forgotten hut site in County Mayo, Ireland, where earth and stone still mark a small living space beside older ruins. Goats graze above it now, but the boundary bank remains visible at the junction of field walls. A person may have stood there in rain or watched the road from inside a shallow room, yet no name has survived to identify them. The site preserves the shape of an ordinary life that disappeared before modern records began keeping it safe.

In pasture, located at the junction of field walls on a low N-S ridge. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a small circular feature at the junction of three field boundaries; not shown on later map editions. Roughly square feature (7m E-W, c. 5-7m N-S) defined on E, S and W sides by a bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.7m) of earth and stone, and on the N side by a field wall. Another field wall on a N-S axis abuts the bank at the S. The function of this feature is unclear –it may be the remains of a small structure or hut. It is partly obscured by gorse and hawthorn. A rath (MA040-040----) and Man-made underground passage (MA040-040001-) are located 50m to N. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

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