What is recorded here

Indicated is a roughly circular fairy fort on a Mayo ridge, its stony edge half-swallowed by hawthorn and half-claimed by later fences. The north side has become a tangled green chamber while the south remains open pasture, splitting one ancient place into two different lives. A second rath waits two hundred and eighty metres away, suggesting this was never a lonely marker but a neighbourhood of hidden rooms.

In pasture, located on top of a NE–SW ridge. Slightly raised, roughly circular area (c. 44m NNW–SSE; c. 43m WSW–ESE) defined by a stony scarp (H 0.8m at SW). The scarp is incorporated at NE–SE into a later field fence/property boundary; at SSE–WSW stones, possibly wall footings, protrude along upper edge of the scarp; at W–NNE the scarp is difficult to trace and is degraded to a low stony rise (Wth 2-2.5m). In the NW quadrant of the interior there is a linear depression (L c. 8m NW−SE; Wth 1.2m base, 2m top; D 0.5m). The rath is bisected N of centre by a field fence on a roughly E–W axis, and a post and wire property boundary extends to NW from this. To S of the E–W field fence, the interior is grass covered; to N of the fence, the interior is engulfed in hawthorn, blackthorn and hazel trees, which also ring the perimeter. There is a rath (MA062-081001-) 280m to SE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 November 2020

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