What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined fairy fort in County Mayo, reduced from a full circle to a shallow D-shaped bank beside a field fence. The southern part vanished during early twentieth-century leveling, leaving only a narrow earthen ridge and three eroded gaps on a gentle slope overlooking bog and pasture. What remains is less a monument than a bruise in the ground, marking the exact place where human hands and farm work erased most of its shape.

In pasture, located on a gentle W-facing slope, giving good views over a flat expanse of mixed pasture and bog. This rath is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure, and on the 1930 edition as a semicircular hachured enclosure (diam. c. 25m), open to the W, and bisected on the N edge by a field fence on an E-W axis. The two third of the rath which lies to S of the E-W field fence was levelled in the early 20th-century, and no visible trace is now evident at ground level. To the N of the fence, a portion of the rath survives as a D-shaped area (23m E-W; 6.5m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.5m). There are three eroded breaks (Wth 1.6-2m) in the bank. Outside the bank at NW is a discrete shallow depression (Wth 2m), which appears to be an area of disturbance rather than evidence of a fosse. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 January 2020

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.