What is recorded here
Indicated is a stone ringfort in County Mayo, Ireland. It occupies a rock outcrop and measures about thirty-two metres north-south and thirty-one metres east-west. A dump-built wall three metres wide and one and a half metres high encloses the circle, leaving a two-and-a-half-metre gap on the northeast. A later field fence overlaps the wall from the south toward the northeast, marking the place as both ancient and continually reused.
In area of rock outcrop. Circular area (32m N-S; 31m E-W), enclosed by a stone wall of dump construction (Wth 3m; H 1.5m) with gap (Wth 2.6m) on NE. Wall overlain by stone field fence, S to NE.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 240.
Date of upload: 6 November 2013
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