What is recorded here

Indicated is a partly destroyed fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland, where a modern bungalow and garden have swallowed the north-west quadrant of the ancient ring. The remaining south bank is marked by hawthorn bushes, while a field fence cuts across the centre, reducing a sacred or defensive place to an ordinary pasture boundary. The fort still measures thirty-three metres north to south, large enough to hold a household, a herdsman or a hidden life, yet human activity has erased much of its shape. What is missing is not emptiness; it is the part the landscape no longer remembers.

In average pasture, located in an area of gently undulating grassland. This partly levelled rath survives as a roughly circular area (29.7m E-W; c. 33m N–S) defined on the S half by remnants of a bank/scarp, removed at W–N, and discernible at NE–E only as a slight rise or undulation. An E−W field fence cuts across the centre of the rath. Hawthorn bushes defines the bank on the S half . A bungalow is located to NW, and part of the NW quadrant of the rath falls within the garden/backyard area of the residential plot. Another rath (MA062-110----) is located 80m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 January 2021

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