What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthen fort on a Mayo ridge where the bank still stands two metres high against the sky. Later hands cut the south face vertical and built stone walls around the ancient earth, turning a fairy dwelling into a ordinary field boundary. The small hollows inside may have marked hearths or treasure pits, but grass and hazel have claimed them back.

In pasture, located on a roughly N−S rise or low ridge, in an area of sharply undulating terrain. Views are good NW−N and SE, but are restricted elsewhere by rising ground. Raised circular area (28n N−S; 28m E−W) defined by an earthen bank/scarp. The bank (Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 2.6m) is most substantial at NE−E; it retains only a low internal lip at SE−S, and is reduced to a scarp (Wth slope 5.9m; ext. H 2.9m) elsewhere. The pronounced external slope of the bank at E and on the W arc is enhanced by the natural slope of the ridge. The bank has been modified and incorporated into a later system of field walls: The rath perimeter at NW−NE serves as a property boundary; the external face of the bank/scarp (ext. H 1.5m) on the S arc has been cut to vertical and faced with drystone walling, and remnants of later stone facing is also evident elsewhere around the circuit. Interior ground level in the SE quadrant dips or slopes down from the centre towards the perimeter at SE. There are a number of small, shallow roughly circular hollows (c. 2m; D 0.3-0.4m) in the interior at W, centre, NE and S. Grass cover in the interior; hazel and hawthorn trees around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 May 2020

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