What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthen fort in County Mayo, preserving faint cultivation ridges and a possible southern entrance within average pasture. Local tradition claims an underground passage exists beneath the rampart, turning ordinary farm land into a hidden chamber. The fort still stands beside wet rush-grown ground, waiting for someone to walk its edge and wonder what it concealed.

In average pasture, located on a rise, with a band of wet, rush-grown ground c. 10m to E–SE. Raised circular area (35m N–S; 34.5m E–W) defined by a high scarp (Wth slope 3.4m at E, 4.6m at W; H 2.35m at E, 2.45m at W). A property fence on a NE–SW axis crosses the NW edge of the rath. On the NW side of this fence there is a parallel field ditch (Wth 1.8; D 0.45m). The rath interior is level, traversed by faint relict cultivation ridges on a NE–SW axis. A slumped section (Wth c. 3m) of scarp at SSW that may be the site of an original entrance. According to local tradition, there is a Man-made underground passage (MA091-003001-) in the rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 February 2022

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