What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined earthen ringfort on the NW shore of Carrowkeribly Lough, its broad fosse and slumped bank still marking an oval home in Mayo pasture. Local information identifies a shallow western depression as the mouth of an underground passage, inviting wonder about what hidden chamber or seasonal refuge it once served. Ferns, grass and hawthorn now soften the ancient line, while the broken eastern entrance still faces the water and remembers the people who lived there.

In pasture, located on a gentle SE-facing slope on the NW shore of Carrowkeribly Lough. Oval area (42m NNE–SSW; 32m WNW–ESE) defined by an earthen bank and enclosed by a fosse. The bank (Wth 4.7m at SE, c. 6m at SW; int. H 0.15m at SE, 0.4m at SW; ext. H 1.5-1.6m) appears to have been partly levelled. It retains a pronounced external slope but retains only as a low, broadly-slumped internal rim. The fosse (Wth 5m) is broad, with a flat base, and is most clearly defined at SSW–N. In parts, the fosse appears to have a stony rim on it outer edge, but there is no definitive evidence for an external bank. The entrance may have been at E where there is a low area (Wth c. 2m) in the inner bank and a break (Wth 7m) in the fosse. Faint traces of possible cultivation ridges, on a NW–SE orientation, can be seen in the interior. According to local information, a depression (8m E–W; 3m N–S) in the W half of the interior marks the location of a Man-made underground passage (MA039-108001-). The rath interior is covered with grass and ferns, with a few hawthorn bushes on the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 1 April 2020

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