What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland, holding a circular earthen chamber twenty-four metres across on a low rise above pasture. Its moss-covered hummocks and faint eastern causeway suggest people once entered, lived, and left the soil marked long before modern fences cut the land into townlands. The fort still stands at the junction of Rathowen East and Castlereagh, waiting for curiosity rather than explanation.

In pasture, located on a low rise in undulating terrain, with good views. It is located in the SW of Townplots West townland, close to the boundary junction with two other townlands, Rathowen East and Castlereagh. Raised circular area (23.5m N–S; 24.5m E–W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.7m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.1m, at NNW), and enclosed by a fosse (Wth 2m) and at S–NE by an external bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.4m). At NE-E the fosse is visible as a slight depression and is barely discernible at E-SE. The original entrance may have been at the E; there is no clearly defined gap in the inner bank, but there is a hint of a causeway (Wth 2.5m) across the fosse. The interior has an uneven surface, dotted with many small, moss-covered hummocks. The NE quadrant appears to be slightly higher that the rest of the interior. At N–NE remnants of a field ditch (Wth 1.2m) with associated field bank (Wth 2.2m; H 0.45m) skirt the external bank. A rath (MA022-002----) is located 145m to W; there is an enclosure (MA022-004----) 90m to NW, a rath (MA022-003----) 100m to NNW, and another rath (MA022-002----) c. 250m to W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 April 2019

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