What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken earthen ring on a Mayo ridge, overlooking Killala Bay and facing another rath a quarter mile west. Cattle still cut through its western bank, reducing ancient boundary to a track. The fairies may have built it for watching the sea, or humans may have watched the bay for passing ships. Either way, the ridge remembers being seen from, even when the bank has worn thin.

In pasture, located at the NE end of a roughly E–W ridge, with extensive views to N-NE over Killala town and Killala Bay. The townland boundary lies immediately to NE. Raised oval area (34m NW–SE; c. 27m NE–SW) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6m at NW, 3m at SE; int. H 0.7m at NW, 0.25m at SW; ext. H 1.3m at NW, 1.5m at SE). The bank is low internally, and is largely reduced to a scarp at N–SE, where it coincides with the contours of a natural break of slope. There are two eroded breaks (Wth 0.4m and 0.8m) in the bank at NNW, where a cattle track enters the rath. The interior has a gentle slope down from the centre to the N-NE. A slightly raised area (diam. c. 4-5m) can be discerned in the SE quadrant, but its outline is not clearly defined, and its significance is unclear. There is a rath (MA022-090----) 250m to W. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 June 2019

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