What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined stone ringfort in County Mayo, Ireland, where a low stony bank still marks a circular home though centuries have reduced it to grass and memory. A modern house stands immediately beside it, suggesting people have lived around this old boundary for generations. The preserved eastern section hints that the wall once rose higher, enclosing a small world now lost beneath pasture and time.

In pasture, on a low rise. A modern house is located immediately to S, and there is another 15-20m to WSW. A roughly circular area (33m N–S; 29.4m E–W) defined by a broad, low sod-covered stony rise, probably the remnants of a wall. The stone bank/wall is broadest (Wth 5-6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1m) at E–S where it has been somewhat protected by a later property boundary that skirts the cashel at NE–S. Elsewhere it is irregular and uneven in appearance. There is a low section (Wth 4m) at NE which may indicates an original entrance. The interior is level and grassy. There is a Man-made underground passage (MA072-031002) in the SW quadrant. Immediately outside the cashel to N is a low E–W linear rise. This seems to be the remains of a field fence rather that an outer enclosing wall of the cashel. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 March 2021

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