What is recorded here

Indicated is a possible rath on a Mayo rise where drainage pulled Lough Crokery back from its peninsula. The 1838 map showed a complete circular enclosure, but later surveying and levelled ground reduced it to faint traces in pasture. It remains a border between memory and forgetting, with water withdrawn just far enough to expose the shape of what was hidden.

In improved pasture, located on a rise in gently undulating terrain, with good views in all directions and overlooking Lough Crokery to NW. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map it is located on a small peninsula which jutted into the S end of the lake; by the time of the 1917 edition drainage has caused the lake levels to recede to a distance of c. 80-100m to N of the enclosure. This possible rath is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m); only the W half is depicted on the 25-inch plan and the 1917 6-inch edition where a fosse and external bank are shown. It has been levelled; slight undulations merging with the natural contours of the rise can be traced at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 May 2022

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