What is recorded here

Indicated is a collapsed stone ringfort on a Mayo ridge, its broken wall now a broad band of mossy jumble beside a farm track. The earth tilts inward toward the NE, while hazel and blackthorn ring the perimeter like a living guard. An underground passage hides in the SW quadrant, and a possible hut crouches just outside the SE wall. The place does not announce itself; it waits for someone to notice the slope, the gaps, and the shadow beneath the stones.

In pasture, straddling the top and NE slope of a knoll-like undulation on the NE-facing slope of a prominent ridge. The rising ridge slope restricts views to S–SW, but there are excellent views N–NE. Sub-circular area (36.5m E–W; 30m N–S) enclosed by a collapsed stone wall. The enclosing wall appear originally to have had a width of c. 2m, but it survives now as a broad band of loose jumbled stones, largely moss covered (Wth 3.7-4m at E, 2-2.5m at W; int. H c. 0.4m; ext. H 0.8-1m). There are two breaks, one to NE (Wth 3.5m), and one to SW (Wth 4m). The interior mirrors the natural slope of the ridge, with an arc of level ground in the W half from which the ground slopes markedly to NE-SE. There is a Man-made underground passage (MA093-008002-) in the SW quadrant. Immediately outside the cashel wall to SE, is a possible hut site (MA093-008003-). The cashel has been incorporated into the line of a NE-SW field boundary on its W arc and is skirted here by a farm track. The perimeter is thickly ringed with hazel and blackthorn. There are clumps of nettles, thistles and brambles in the interior. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 June 2022

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