What is recorded here

Inidcated is a circular embanked enclosure in County Mayo, recorded on the 1838 OS 6-inch map but absent from later editions. Local tradition identifies the site as the home of fairy hawthorn trees, explaining why people never disturbed it. The enclosure still holds that boundary: visible enough to mark, hidden enough to preserve, and set beside ordinary farm life on a rise above wet ground.

In pasture, located on a rise, with ground falling to SE to an area of wet ground. The rise is crossed by N−S field fence. There is a farmyard c. 30m to N. A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 15m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. A slightly raised D-shaped feature (c. 10m N−S), perhaps the remnants of a mound, is bordered at E by the straight N−S field fence. There is no evidence of a continuation of this feature on the opposite/E side of the fence. According to local tradition, this is the site of ‘fairy trees’ (hawthorn) and for this reason was never disturbed. When inspected in 1998 it was largely obscured by clearance debris. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 June 2022

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