What is recorded here

Indicated is a hidden double-ringed fort on a narrow Mayo ridge, its earth banks still standing beside a flat fosse that people once reused as a track. The oval measure is large enough to hold a small neighbourhood, yet it has no gate, name or living memory in the account. It sits in a natural hollow above boggy ground, half swallowed by grass and livestock gaps, as if the land took back what it had first given.

In a slight natural hollow on a narrow N-S pasture ridge overlooking lower boggy ground to E and W. A completely overgrown oval-shaped area (int. diams. c. 38m N-S; c. 30m E-W) is defined by the remains of an inner and outer earthen bank with an intervening fosse. The inner enclosing bank (int. H 0.5-2m; Wth 6.5-8m; ext. H 2m) is mainly round-topped and is encircled by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 3m) from NNW-NE-S which has been infilled from S-W-NNW. The fosse was reused as a trackway from NE-E-S. Outside the fosse, a second enclosing bank (int. H 1-1.8m; Wth 4m; ext. H 1m) survives from N-E-S. Both banks are breached by livestock gaps in the NNE sector and later field boundaries run off the monument at NNW and SSE. Date of visit: 19-3-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

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