What is recorded here

Indicated is a stone ringfort in County Mayo, Ireland, where a low rise still commands the undulating landscape. Its sod-covered bank encloses a circular space now bisected by a drystone wall, suggesting human hands shaped the site before brambles and pasture reclaimed it. The fort may have served as a home, a boundary marker, or a place of refuge, yet its exact purpose has faded into the green silence of the fields.

In pasture, located on a low rise, with good views over the surrounding undulating landscape. Slightly raised circular area (21.6m N–S; 22m E–W) defined by a sod-covered stone bank (Wth 2-2.5m; int. H 0.2-0.3m; ext. H 1m at NW, 1.5m at SE). The interior is bisected roughly centrally by a drystone property wall (Wth 1m) on a NNW-SSE axis. An E−W field wall abuts the stone bank at NE, and at its point of intersection has been expanded by the addition of field clearance stones. There are heaps of field clearance stones on the top of the stone bank, and at E–SE against its external slope. The interior is grass cover, with brambles around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 January 2021

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