What is recorded here

Indicated is a slightly raised, broadly oval fairy fort on a western ridge in County Mayo, Ireland, where blackthorn still chokes the interior and drystone walls cut across its ancient edge. The place belongs to the border between human fields and fairy ownership, with scarce evidence that either set still answers when named.

In pasture, located on a NE−SW ridge, at the break of slope at on the W side of the ridge. There are good views ESE−NW. Slightly raised broadly oval area (c. 30-35m E−W; c. 25m N−S) defined by a scarp (H 0.4m at W, 1m at N) with remnants of stone facing. It has been modified and incorporated into a system of later field walls: A drystone field wall, set 2-3m in from the scarp, encloses the interior in a broad arc SW−NE, and intersects at NE with a N-S field wall that cuts across the E edge of the ringfort; there is an inward or W-facing scarp 1-2m to W of the N-S field wall, extending parallel to it through the ringfort interior, with a number of boulders set against it at its S end. The S edge of the ringfort may have been partly cut away by the road that lies immediately to S of it; it is now faced externally and topped with drystone walling. The interior is largely obscured by a thicket of blackthorn. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 April 2021

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