What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthwork on a Mayo hill, its steep scarped edge rising nearly two metres before disappearing into blackthorn thicket. The ruined farmstead nearby suggests humans lived beside this strange boundary, perhaps avoiding the dense vegetation or fearing what the fairies kept hidden within.

In pasture, located on a hill, which provides excellent views. Raised circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a scarp (ext. H 1.8m, at N), which is enhanced by the natural hill slope, especially at SE−S. The scarp retains a low internal lip at W−NE and is topped by a drystone field wall at S−W. A portion of the scarp at NE has been dug away. Remnants of a trackway, flanked by field walls, skirts the base of the scarp at NW−NE; it lead E to a vernacular farmstead, now ruined, which is shown on the1838 OS 6-inch map. The interior appears to have a slight slope down from centre to N. It was covered in an impenetrable thicket of blackthorn at the time of inspection in 1997. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 May 2021

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