What is recorded here

Indicated is a degraded fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland, occupying a shallow east-west stream valley beside a canalised drain. Its earthen bank still stands one to two metres high on the outside but has lost most of its internal lip, leaving a level grassy interior marked only by a small southern depression and an eastern entrance gap. The site preserves the basic shape of a rath rather than a complete defended structure, exposing how much of the original boundary has slipped into pasture and memory.

In pasture, located in a small, shallow E-W stream valley, at the base of a gentle S-facing slope. A canalised stream/drain lies immediately to S of the rath and serves as the S boundary of the townland. On the opposite side of the stream, ground rises in a slightly steeper slope. Views are relatively open E–W along the valley, but restricted by the rising ground to N and S. Slightly raised, roughly circular area (21m E–W; 23m N–S) enclosed by a degraded earthen bank (Wth c. 3m at N, 3.6m at S; int. H c. 0.3m at N, 0.4m at S; ext. H 0.6m at N, 1.2m at S). The bank is fairly well defined on its external slope, especially on the S half, but it retains only a low internal lip, and in parts at ESE–SE and at W–NW is reduced to a low scarp. A band (Wth 2.5m) of rushes outside the bank at the NE arc may mark the line of an infilled fosse, but it cannot be traced around the complete circuit. The interior is level. There is a slight circular depression (diam. c. 2m) just S of centre. The original entrance appears to have been at E where there is a gap (Wth 2m). Grass cover, with a few hawthorn trees on the bank at S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 May 2019

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