What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthen ringfort on a south-facing shoulder in County Mayo, preserving a small enclosed life beneath brambles and hawthorn. Its low bank, shallow outer depression, and nearby cairn suggest people shaped the rise for residence, ritual, or both long before the field fence arrived. The name itself sounds like a pointer, as if the land still marks the place rather than hiding it.

In pasture, located on the S-facing shoulder of a prominent rise in an area of undulating terrain. Circular area (23.6m E–W; 21m N–S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.2m; int. H 0.6m at N, 0.2m at SW; ext. H 0.8m at N, 0.95m at SW) of earth and stone. The bank is very low internally at SW–W, and is reduced to a scarp in parts at E–S. Stones piled on top of the bank are probably the result of field clearance. Outside the bank at N there is a shallow depression (Wth 2.5m) that may be evidence of an enclosing fosse. The interior slopes down gently from N to S. There is a small heap of stones, most likely field clearance, in the W half. The perimeter is thickly ringed with hawthorn, hazel, and brambles, and there are clumps of brambles in the interior. A field fence skirts the rath at SE. There is a cairn (MA038-156----) c. 30m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 July 2019

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