What is recorded here

Rathmoyle is a rectangular moated platform in County Mayo, Ireland, where a broad earthen bank still stands beside a faint water-cut trench. Brambles crowd the perimeter while grass fills the centre, marking a place shaped for defense or display before memory faded. The nearby rath and wet eastern depression suggest a lived landscape rather than a dead one, where people may have watched the valley, kept stock, or simply belonged to the rise.

In pasture, located on the N side of a rise, overlooking to E a natural depression of wet ground. This moated site consists of a rectangular platform (32.5m NNE-SSW; 48m ESE-WNW) defined by an earthen bank, and enclosed by an external fosse. The bank (W 6.3m; int. H 1.35; ext. H 1.5m) is quite well preserved preserved at S, but elsewhere survives mainly as a scarp, lowest (ext. H 0.5m) at NE and E, which retains a slight internal lip in parts. The fosse (W 4.4m; ext. D 1.4m) is evident only on S side. Brambles and thorn bushes around the perimeter; interior grassy. There is a rath (MA030-049----) c. 200m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 16 April 2018

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