What is recorded here

Indicated is a forty-two-metre fairy fort on a Mayo ridge where hawthorn still rings the scarped earth. The western bank stands tall while the eastern half has flattened into pasture, suggesting human hands or forgotten time smoothed the edge. Local tradition mentions an underground passage inside, inviting wonder about what lives beneath the grass. Two other raths watch from nearby, creating a small circle of ancient presence above the stream.

In pasture, located on a ridge, with a gradual fall of ground towards a stream 150m to SW. This rath remains well defined on the W half but has been levelled on the E half. Slightly raised circular area (42.4m N−S; c. 42 E−W) defined on the W half by a scarp (H 2.5m; Wth slope 3.7m at W), levelled on the E half to a slight rise/undulation, and enclosed by a fosse and external bank. The scarp has been modified to serve as a field boundary on the W arc. The fosse (Wth 4m) and external bank (Wth 5.7m; int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.8m) are well defined at SSW−NW; the fosse can be traced at NW−N as a shallow depression and the outer bank as an ephemeral undulation. A road truncates the fosse and outer bank at NE−E. A remnant of the outer bank is also evident as a slight undulation at SE. Interior ground level rises slightly in the NW quadrant. According to local information, there is a Man-made underground passage (MA071-004001-) in the interior. The rath is ringed with hawthorn. There are raths (MA071-002----; MA071-003----) 200m to NNE and 190m to NE, respectively. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 June 2021

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