What is recorded here

Indicated is a possible fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland, where a thirty-metre circular rise still holds its shape beside a sharp western fall. The 1838 OS 6-inch map marked the enclosure before later editions dropped it, suggesting the land itself forgot the boundary while the grass remembered it. Its eastern entrance likely followed the gentle slope, giving whoever lived there an easy way in and a clearer view of the dropping dark beyond.

In poor-average, undulating pasture, located on a rise, with a sharp fall of ground to W-NW. A circular enclosure (diam. 25-30m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later editions. This possible rath is evident as a slightly raised circular area (diam. 30m) defined ESE-S by a partly levelled scarp (H 1m), which is reduced to a low undulation elsewhere. The interior is level and grass-covered. The entrance was most likely to the E, where the natural slope is gentle. When inspected in 1996, two straight field walls truncated the scarp at W and S, and there were two sod-covered heaps of stone, most likely field clearance, on the scarp at the SE; these have since been removed. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 July 2020

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