What is recorded here

Indicated is a partly levelled fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland. A low, slumped scarp still marks its circular edge, while boulders at the north-west and thistles outside hint at older boundaries. Field walls now cut through the grass and brambles inside, dividing what may have been one enclosed place into ordinary farmland. The fort has not disappeared, but it has been flattened into the landscape until only a slight rise remains to suggest the shape of the boundary that once stood there.

This rath has been partly levelled. It is evident as a slightly raised, circular area (33m N–S; 31.7m E–W) defined by a low, broadly slumped levelled scarp (Wth slope 6.5m; ext. H 0.6m at NW). There are some boulders incorporated into the scarp at NNW but it is unclear if they represent the remains of a primary feature or merely field clearance. Outside the scarp at NNW–NE, a slight depression marked by a denser growth of thistles may be an infilled fosse. A field wall, on a NE–SW axis, crosses the E half of the interior. To E of this wall, a perpendicular field wall extends to ESE through the SE quadrant of the interior. The interior to NW of the NE−SW field wall is grass covered; to SE of the wall it is largely engulfed in brambles. A disused sand pit encroaches slightly on the scarp at E. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 June 2022

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