What is recorded here

Indicated is a substantial fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland, where a collapsed underground passage still shadows the western grass. The site measures thirty-two metres across, rises four and a half metres above the pasture, and preserves a stone-lined ramp at its north-east edge. Cattle may have walked the interior for centuries, yet the hidden hollow suggests that the field once opened into darkness beneath an ordinary ridge.

In pasture, located at the N end of a low ridge in gently undulating terrain. A substantially raised circular area (c. 32m N–S; c. 31m E–W) defined by a partly eroded scarp (H 4.5m). A ramp-like feature, partly defined by stones, located in the slope of the rath platform at the NE, may be the original entrance. In the interior at the WSW there is a large irregular-shaped hollow that represents a collapsed Man-made underground passage (MA070-209001-). Cultivation ridges (Wth c. 3m) traverse the interior surface on a NE–SW axis, but are not evident in the area of the Man-made underground passage. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 October 2012

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