What is recorded here

Indicated is a D-shaped fairy fort in County Mayo pasture, its earthen bank still standing fifteen centimetres above the grass while a property fence cuts through the western arc. Hawthorn and brambles strangle the perimeter, and a stony rise sits half-buried inside like a forgotten heap of rejected world. The fort has lost half its circle to the field boundary, yet the remaining curve holds its shape against rain and time. What ever lived there stopped being visible long before the fence went up.

In rough-average pasture, located in gently undulating terrain bordered a few hundred meters to W by tracts of bog. There is a natural rise immediately to NW. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure and on the 1922 edition as a semi-circular area bordered on the straight side to NW by a field boundary, this rath survives as a D-shaped area (30.8m NE-SW; 20m NW–SE) defined on the curving side at NNE–SW by a bank (Wth 4.9m; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.55m at E), and on the straight side to NW by a property fence on a NE–SW axis. The bank appears to be largely earthen but incorporates stones. It is best preserved at E, where it has a broad external slump. Stones protruding from the inner face may be remnants of a kerb. There are narrow eroded breaks at E (Wth 0.6m) and at W (Wth 1m). A broad band of wet boggy ground outside the bank may indicate the presence of a fosse. There is no trace at ground level of the W arc of the rath, to N of the field fence. In the W half of the interior there is a roughly circular, sod-covered stony rise (diam. c. 7.6m NE–SW; 7m NW–SE; H 0.5m at E), possibly a heap of field stones. Hawthorn and brambles grow on the perimeter. A possible enclosure (MA038-215----) is located c. 50m to N. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 31 July 2019

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.