Fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Cashel Lower, County Mayo

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What is recorded here

On a narrow N-S pasture ridge, in the NW corner of a later field. A heavily overgrown circular area (int. diam. 24m) is enclosed by a flat-topped (Wth 1-3m) bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.2 at N to 9m at W; int. H 0.5-1m; ext. H 1.1 at S to 2.1m at W). A Children’s Burial ground (MA070-056----) lies c. 200m to the E and a second ringfort (MA070-105----) lies c. 130m to the S. Date of visit: 7-3-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record MA070-055

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Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
Western People; photographer not stated (Stuart Tynan is article author), www.westernpeople.ie
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
Breaffy Area community website; individual photographer not stated, breaffyarea.weebly.com
Connaught Telegraph; individual photographer not named, www.con-telegraph.ie
John D. Reigh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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