What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken fairy fort in County Mayo, its circular bank twisted into a D-shape by a modern field fence. The earth and stones still rise beside the Glenree River, hiding a collapsed underground passage and a nearby hut site within their shallow curve. Whatever life moved through that terrace likely watched the wet western pasture for seasons before human hands redirected the ancient line.

In pasture, located on a terrace on the SW-facing slope of a ridge, with the Glenree or Owenmore River 150m to S. Views are most extensive to W, where there is an expanse of lowlying, wettish pasture. There is undulating, rising ground to N and E. This rath was probably originally circular or oval in plan, but is now roughly D-shaped, due to the incorporation of its enclosing bank at SE into a linear NE−SW field fence. It consists of a slightly raised area (27m NE−SW; 22m NW−SE) defined on the curving side SSW−NE by a bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) of earth and stones. At E the bank is poorly preserved, and partly truncated by a farm track. The interior has a slight slope down from centre to E, and has an uneven surface, dotted with several small heaps of fieldstones. There is a collapsed Man-made underground passage (MA031-016002-) against inner face of the bank at S. A hut site (MA031-015----) is located 16m to W. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 June 2018

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