What is recorded here

Promontory fort is a fifteen-metre headland in County Mayo, cut from the mainland by a straight deep ditch and flanked by steep cliffs. It hid in plain sight for decades, visible only from the air until human boots finally found the earthen banks. The fort likely served as a coastal watchpoint or seasonal refuge, watching the north sea while people lived and worked the fertile pasture below. Its sudden disappearance from ground memory suggests the ditch and banks once blended so completely into the landscape that they became invisible to everyone walking past.

A small north facing headland lying in an area of fertile pasture is cut off from the mainland by a straight deep ditch, with earthen banks visible on either side of it. The site is flanked by steep cliffs and measures about 15m long. This site had not been previously recorded and though seen from the air it could not be located on the ground. These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. Date of upload: 5 December 2018

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