What is recorded here

Indicated is a levelled fairy fort on a Mayo ridge, its thirty-five-metre circle reduced to faint undulations beside a hidden underground passage. The land still holds the shape of human hands even though ploughs and time have smoothed the bank. Perhaps people once watched the damp valley fog through the NE opening before the field boundary swallowed the rath whole.

In pasture, located just below the highest point on a ridge, close to a gradual fall of ground at NW–NE which provides are good views, especially to NE over a valley of damp pasture. Immediately to SSE−SSW ground rises gently along the spine of the ridge. A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 35m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. By the time of the 1931 edition, the rath has been encircled by a later field boundary and only the NE arc of the enclosing bank is depicted with hachuring. It has been levelled. Ephemeral surface undulations can be traced in a broad curve (diam. 25-30m N−S) at N−SW. The interior ground surface has an uneven, disturbed appearance. An opening to a Man-made underground passage (MA071-146001) is located in a slightly raised area, roughly NE of centre. There is a rath (MA071-145-----) 80m to SW and a possible rath (MA071-144----) 235m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 September 2021

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