What is recorded here

Indicated is a buried fairy fort on a Mayo ridge, marked on an 1838 map but swallowed by later field walls and blackthorn. It still holds a rough circular shape, thirty metres across, with tractor gaps cut through what may have been an ancient bank. The land around it is damp, boggy and restless, as if the fort refused to be owned or forgotten.

In pasture, located on a ridge, close to the break of slope at the SE side, overlooking lowlying damp ground to SE, rising ground to S and expanses of bog to SW and W. This possible rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular embanked enclosure; by the time of the 1930 edition it has been subsumed into a system of later field boundaries defining a network of small subrectangular walled fields, now encroached on by blackthorn scrub Slightly raised, roughly subcircular area (31.5m E−W; c. 30m N−S) defined by an earth and stone field fence, which may preserve an original bank; it is largely concealed by overgrowth and difficult to examine. A short length of drystone wall defines the N−NNE arc. Gaps at N (Wth 2.5m) and SW (Wth 2m) now allow tractor access to the interior. A low E−W field fence crosses the interior to S of centre. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 May 2021

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