What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken fairy fort on a low Mayo ridge, its eastern half swallowed by a farm boundary and its western curve still visible through dense overgrowth. Children were once buried there, though no grave remains evident, suggesting the ring served the living and dead before becoming a forgotten pasture mark. The bog stretches west like a dark breath, while the straight field wall cuts the circle in two, turning an ancient enclosure into a D-shaped shadow.

In pasture, located on a low E−W ridge, with broad expanses of bog stretching to W. Shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. 20-25m); by the time of the 1919 edition, the E half of the enclosure appears to have been truncated, and it is depicted as a D-shaped hachured area bordered at E by a straight field boundary. There is a farmstead immediately to E. The remains consist of a slightly raised D-shaped area (20m N−S; 10m E−W to the fence) defined on the curving side by a bank/scarp and on the straight side at E by a field wall. The scarp incorporates stones in parts, and is rather eroded. It is probably the remains of a rath, the E half of which has been levelled. The interior is flat, but has an uneven stone-strewn surface. It was used as children’s burial ground (MA064-002002-), but no graves are now evident. It is densely covered in overgrowth. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 June 2020

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