What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland. It is a rough circular rath on a ridge slope, built with an earthen bank and a steeper scarp, and it still stands beside open pasture. The thicket at its centre refuses entry, while a quarry bites at its southern edge. The place preserves the shape of human labour even as it withdraws from easy understanding.

In pasture, on the NE-facing slope of a ridge, with very good views at N−E. Roughly circular area (estimated diam. 20-25m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.5m at SW) at SW−N, and by a scarp (H 2-2.5m at NE) at NNW−SE, with a pronounced external slope on the NE arc. The bank/scarp incorporates stones, some at least of which along the top and on the slope may be field clearance stones. The rath appears to have been built up on the E half to compensate for the hill slope and create a level interior. It is engulfed in a dense thicket of blackthorn, hawthorn and brambles; the centre of the interior is impenetrable. A post-and-wire fence set in the scarp encircles the site. A large quarry has encroached to within a few meters of the rath on its S side. There is an enclosure (MA071-152----) 270m to W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 September 2021

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