What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland, where a rough stone wall still marks the edge of a flat grassy chamber. The ridge lifts slightly above the surrounding pasture, giving a wide view across the land while the chamber remains small enough to walk around in minutes. People may have stood there to watch weather, herds, or travellers, using the height and shape to make the area feel set apart from ordinary fields.

In rough, stony heather-grown pasture, located in a low NNE−SSW ridge, with a fall of ground to SE, providing good views, especially E−S−SW. Flat circular area (21.5m N−S; 22.5m E−W) enclosed at N−SW by a roughly built drystone wall (Wth 0.8-1m; H 0.8-1m). The wall is similar in size and construction to adjacent field walls. On the S half the wall appears to sit on a low berm/scarp (Wth 1.5-1.7m; H 0.3m), which projects slightly from beneath the wall. On the W arc the wall has been levelled, and can be traced only as a low, heather-covered stony rise. On the E half of the circuit, the wall now serves as a field/property boundary. Linear field walls abut the enclosure at NE, SE and S. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 June 2020

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