What is recorded here

Indicated stands on a Mayo ridge above damp pasture, its circular outline surviving only in a band of yellowish grass and a deeper green trench. Cattle may have grazed the levelled bank for centuries, erasing the sharp edge that once marked human territory. The land still holds the shape of a fort even though the stones and soil have surrendered to pasture.

In pasture, prominently sited on a ridge overlooking a broad expanse of lowlying, damp pasture. Ground falls away steeply immediately to N−NE of the enclosure. This possible rath is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m); it is shown as an oblong hachured enclosure (c. 60m N-S; c. 30m E-W) on the 1931 edition. It has been levelled. The outline of a roughly circular flat area (c. 26m NE–SW; c. 28m NW–SE) is defined by a slight undulation/cropmark: An encircling band (Wth c. 4m) of yellowish grass, sloping outwards slightly, probably indicates a levelled bank or scarp, and outside that a band of richer, green grass -clearest on the W arc -is suggestive of an external fosse. The E edge of the enclosure has been dug away and a field fence on a NNE−SSW axis lies immediately to E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 August 2021

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