What is recorded here

Indicated is a levelled fairy fort in County Mayo pasture, reduced to a faint twenty-metre circle where a farm truck or plough may have erased the life that once hid inside its bank. It still belongs to the field, visible only as a slight rise, a shallow dip and a low terrace at the west and south edges. The land keeps its shape even when memory leaves it, waiting for someone to walk the circle and admit what was forgotten.

In pasture, located on a slight rise, overlooked to E by a higher ground. This rath is shown on the1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular ringfort-sized enclosure; it is not shown on the 1930 edition. It has been levelled. The barely discernible outline of a roughly circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a bank, outside which there is a fosse with an external bank, can still be traced. The inner bank is evident as a very low rise (Wth c. 1.7m), the fosse as a slight depression (W c. 1.8m) and the outer bank as a barely discernible undulation (Wth c. 1.8m). At W and S the remains of the fosse and external bank merge to form a low terrace (Wth c. 3.5m). The interior is level. A slightly raised linear feature (W 3m; H 0.2m) extends from close to the bank at E into the interior for 7m to WSW, possibly the remnant of a field boundary. At SE a shallow hollow/area of disturbance (diam. 4-4.5m) cuts across the inner bank. There is a cashel (MA072-022----) 200m to E, a rath (MA072-019001-) 220m to NNW and an enclosure (MA072-021001-) c. 100m to S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 March 2021

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