What is recorded here

Indicated is a mossy fairy fort on a Mayo ridge, its stone-rimed bank and shallow ditch still drawing breath from the land. The oval chamber faces outward, commanding the valley while trees strangle the entrance and hide the chamber from casual sight. It is not a forgotten ruin but a living boundary, marking the edge of human knowledge and the beginning of fantasy.

In pasture, located on top of the S end of a prominent N−S ridge, which provides extensive views of the surrounding area. Raised oval area (c. 40m N−S; c. 35m E−W) defined by a bank, and enclosed by an external fosse. The bank rises c. 0.8-1m above interior ground level, and has a steep external slope (ext. H 1.7-2m, 3m to base of fosse at NE). The bank is topped by much moss-covered stone, which appears to be the remnant of a wall (Wth 1.6m; H 0.3-0.6m) of relatively recent date. At E there is a stone-lined entrance gap (Wth 2.6m) through the bank. The fosse is clearly evident on the N arc as a broad depression (Wth 3-4m at top, 2m at base; ext. D c. 0.5m), but is very shallow (ext. D 0.2m) elsewhere, and obscured by a farm track at SW-W. A section of the bank and fosse at NW has been quarried away. A later field wall, on a roughly NW−SE axis, extends across the N edge of the rath. The rath is engulfed in overgrowth and densely ringed by trees, rendering inspection difficult. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 February 2018

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