What is recorded here

Indicated is a quarried fairy fort in County Mayo, an oval of two earthen banks and a vanished interior now crossed by a stone field boundary. It sits beside a turlough and a ridge, waiting for water to return or memory to leave the pasture behind.

In pasture, turlough to S and ridge to W. Oval-shaped area (72m N-S; 48m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse. Inner bank (H 1.1m), levelled SE to S, and outer bank (H 0.5m) levelled N to S. Little remains of the interior, which has been heavily quarried. Stone field boundary bisects N of interior. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 155. Date of upload: 1 February 2013

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