What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished rath in County Mayo, visible only as a faint circular shadow in damp pasture. The 1838 map captured its embankment before human hands erased it, leaving behind a ghost measured in metres rather than memory. Four other raths circle the low ridge like forgotten sentinels, suggesting the land once belonged to someone who valued visibility and defense. What they guarded remains unknown, but the shape of their choice is still written in the slope.

In pasture, on a low ridge, with good views especially to S–NW. Ground falls away to SW to a flat expanse of damp pasture. A circular embanked enclosure (diam. 30-35m), probably a rath, is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on the 1931 edition. It has been levelled but the ephemeral outline of a roughly circular area (31.5m NW–SE; 34.7 NE-SW) can still be traced, defined on the SW half by the hint of a scarp and on the NE half by a slight undulation. It is crossed roughly centrally by a field fence on a NNW–SSE axis. There are raths (MA071-036----; MA061-199----; MA071-039----; MA071-038----) 255m to W, 120m to N; 200m to E and 120m to S respectively. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 July 2021

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