What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthen fort in County Mayo, rising above pasture to watch Derrymore Lough. Its bank still stands, though reduced on one side, with stones lurking beneath the grass and a fence cutting across the middle. The lough has shrunk under modern drainage, leaving wet ground where water once filled the view. The fort remains clear enough to walk, measure and imagine, marking a place chosen for sight before it was chosen for memory.

In pasture, located on a rise with good views. To NE it overlooks Derrymore Lough, now reduced by modern drainage to an expanse of wet ground, in the centre of which there is a possible crannog (MA092-086----). Raised circular area (31.5m NE–SW; 33m NW–SE) defined SSW–NNE by an earthen bank (Wth 1.85m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.25m), reduced to a scarp (H 1.5m) at NE and levelled to a low surface undulation on the SE arc. Stones protruding from the low internal lip of the bank may be remnants of stone facing. Some large stones protrude at random from the external face at W. There is no clearly defined entrance but it is most likely to have been located at E. The interior is level, except for a slight dip close to the bank at N. A field fence on a NE–SW axis crosses the rath to E of centre; the portion of the rath lying to W of the fence is better preserved. Grass cover, with a few hawthorn bushes around the perimeter and on the bisecting field fence. There is a small depression, probably an old quarry pit, a few meters to W of the rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 May 2022

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