What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular earthen ringfort in County Mayo pasture, caught between the Pollagh and Glore rivers. Its low bank has surrendered much of its height to time and tractors, yet the steep northern scarp still holds the shape of a deliberate boundary. Local tradition whispers of an underground passage beneath the grass, inviting imagination to walk where evidence stops.

In pasture, on a rise with a steep fall of ground to NE, and good views in all directions over undulating terrain. The Pollagh River is 240m to W and the Glore River is 270m to E. Roughly circular slightly raised area (32.4m E−W; 31m N−S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.5m, at SSE), which has been has been levelled at SSE−WNW. The bank is quite low and degraded on its inner edge, retaining only a low internal rim. It is reduced to a scarp (H 1.1m at W) at W−NNE, with a particularly steep external slope (H 1.55m) at N−NNE, which is cut quite vertically. The interior is level and grassy; ground level rises very slightly in the SW quadrant. The original entrance may have been at ENE, where a gap (Wth 3.5m) now allows tractor access to the interior. According to local tradition, there may be a Man-made underground passage (MA071-165001-) in the rath. A field wall/property boundary, oriented NW−SE, crosses the SW edge of the rath. Blackthorn scrub rings the bank/scarp. There is another rath (MA071-064----) 175m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 September 2021

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