What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken fairy fort on a low Mayo ridge, its earthen bank reduced to a scarp and its entrance lost beneath long grass and brambles. The oval space still holds a faint inner rim and a ghost of an outer bank, as if the ground remembered a shape it no longer understands. People may have lived there before the stones and soils forgot their names, but the fort has kept its own silence ever since.

Located on a low ridge in undulating landscape. There is a plantation of deciduous and evergreen trees immediately to NE and SW. Oval area (29.3m E–W; 38.5m N–S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6m; int. H 0.4m at NE, 0.7m at W; ext. H 1.2m) which retains a low internal rim on the N half but is largely reduced to a scarp elsewhere. A short remnant of a possible outer bank (L 9m; Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m) with an intervening gap/fosse (Wth 3.4m) is evident outside the inner bank at N. The interior slopes gently down to SE−S towards a gap (Wth 4m) in the bank at SSE, possibly the location of the original entrance. There is another break in the bank (Wth 5m) at the SW. The rath is lightly ringed with hawthorn, ash and brambles, with long grass in the interior. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 July 2021

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