What is recorded here

Indicated stands on a sharp Mayo ridge where a circular fort vanished beneath a derelict house and a line of conifers. The ground still breaks into a faint curve, preserving the shape of a place people stopped seeing. What was lost is not deletion but changing address, moving from stone to memory and myth.

Located on top of an E–W ridge, with an abrupt and steep fall of ground to S. This enclosure, probably a rath, is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure, and on the 1929 edition as a walled enclosure. It has been levelled and a modern house, now derelict, occupies the N half of the interior. The roughly circular outline (diam. c. 28m) can still be traced, defined at ENE–E by a curving undulation, at ESE–SW by a slight scarp merging with the natural slope, and at WSW–NNW by an ephemeral continuation of the curve, now incorporated into a N–S line of conifers. The N edge of the enclosure is clipped by an E–W trackway/road. The S half of the interior is grassy and featureless. Trees and ring the perimeter. A ruined shed abuts the NW edge of the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 June 2020

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