What is recorded here

Indicated is a faded fairy fort on a Mayo headland, its shallow scarp barely rising above the rough pasture before Trabaun beach. The ring is small enough to walk across in a breath, yet it keeps its shape beside Kilalla Bay, with a stone-lined terrace appended like a forgotten bench. Cows may have trod it flat and people may have taken stones for walls, but the circle still marks itself against the grass.

In an area of undulating, rough coastal pasture, located on a short headland overlooking the N end of Trabaun beach, on the W side of Kilalla Bay. Slightly raised circular area (31m N-S; c. 28m E-W) defined by low scarp (H 0.4m at NW, 0.8-1m at NE), which is incorporated into a later field wall on S−NNE. At NE-E where there is a natural fall of ground, the scarp has a stepped profile. The scarp is poorly preserved, being rather uneven and irregular in outline. It is intermittently topped with a slight stony rise, possibly the remnants of a bank or wall. The interior is level but has an uneven surface, broken at W and SW by a cluster of small irregular mounds and hollows. Further evidence of recent disturbance is evident in two small C-shaped areas quarried out of the scarp at the S. At the E a low L-shaped sod-covered stony bank (Wth 1.5m; H 0.2m) marks off an area (6m E-W; 7m N-S) against the perimeter of the platform. Appended to the external face of the scarp at SSE−SW is an oblong or sub-rectangular terrace (26.4m NE-SW; 7-8m NW-SE) defined externally by a scarp (H 0.7m; Wth slope 1m) with a slightly raised rim. Stones protruding from the sod suggest that the terrace scarp was faced with stone. A narrow, shallow gully (Wth 1.2m; D 0.1m) intervenes between the base of the rath scarp and the terrace. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 November 2018

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