What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthen fort on a low damp rise in County Mayo, overlooked a hundred metres south by another rath and shadowed by hawthorn and ash. Its steep scarp still stands two metres high around a level interior, though brambles have claimed the east side where an entrance may have opened. The fort feels like a room built by the land rather than a boundary drawn by people, waiting for someone to remember why it was shaped.

Located on a low rise in gently undulating damp, rush-grown pasture, overlooked 100m to S by higher ground on which a rath (MA071-025----) is located. There is a stream 200m to E. Circular platform (22.8m NE−SW; c. 25m NW−SE) defined by a scarp (H 2.1m at NE, 1.7m at SW; 1.55m at SSE; Wth slope c. 3m), which scarp retains a slightly raised internal lip at SW. The scarp is consistently high for most of the circuit, and is enhanced by the natural fall of ground. It is lowest at SE where there is an eroded slumped area (Wth 1.4m), now engulfed in overgrowth, possibly the site of an original entrance. The interior is level. A field fence/property boundary on a NE−SW axis crosses the rath to NW of centre. Brambles and overgrowth have encroached on the interior; the perimeter is ringed with hawthorn and ash trees. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 August 2021

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