What is recorded here
Indicated is a fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland. Its earthen bank still stands half a metre high around a circular pasture, waiting for people brave enough to stop asking permission from the invisible tenants inside.
In pasture, on E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (39m N-S; 37m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H .5m). Break in SSE (Wth 2.6m).
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 137.
Date of upload: 28 October 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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