What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined cashel in County Mayo, Ireland, now swallowed by a working farmyard. Its circular stone wall has collapsed into slopes and field boundaries, leaving only scattered intact sections and gated breaks for cattle. The fort has not disappeared so much as been absorbed, its ancient shape bent into the practical life of the place.

Incorporated into a farmyard, and bordered by a modern house and garden immediately to W. Raised circular area (28m N−S; 27m E−W) enclosed by a drystone wall (int. H 0.6m at N, 1.3m at S; ext. H 1.7m at N, 1.2m at S). The wall has been greatly modified as a result of incorporation into later field walls and the farmyard. It varies in width; it is narrowest at W (Wth 1.7m), but elsewhere much of the internal wall face has slumped to a gentle sod-covered slope, giving an overall width in parts at N and S of c. 4m. Short sections of intact internal stone facing are still visible in at SE−S and W. At ENE a portion of the wall has been partly removed, where a modern shed has been built against the external face of the cashel. At E, a gap (Wth 3.2m), now fitted with a modern gate, opens into a cattle yard, which abuts the cashel exterior. There is another gated break (Wth 2.7m) at NNE. A barn stands in the SE quadrant of the interior. Sycamore and hawthorn trees grow around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 February 2021

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