What is recorded here

Indicated is a possible ring-cairn in County Mayo pasture, marked by a circular stone wall and an inner spread of loose rocks beneath a view of Nephin Mountain. It may have been a burial place, a boundary marker or a field-cleaning heap, but its shape and position suggest people valued the rise enough to arrange stones there. The Deel River flows nearby through limestone grassland, giving the cairn a quiet setting where human intent and natural land still meet.

In pasture, located on a rise with a fall of ground to W and NW, in an area of gently rolling limestone grassland bordered c. 500m to NW by the Deel River. Nephin Mountain is prominently visible to SSW and the Nephin Beg Range extends along the skyline to W. This possible ringcairn consists of a circular area (diam. 16.3m) defined by a wall or stone bank (Wth 1.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m). The wall/stone bank has a clearly defined inner and external kerb of close-set stones, with a core of earth and stones, now largely sod-covered. The interior is level and grass-covered. In the S half, a roughly circular spread (diam. 6m) of loose stones abuts the inner face of the enclosing wall. It is defined on its perimeter by a denser concentration of stones, forming a slightly raised rim (Wth c. 1.5-1.7m; H 0.15m). The significance of this feature is uncertain; it may incorporate field clearance stones. A cluster of ringbarrows and possible barrows or cairns (MA038-050----; MA038-051----; MA038-052----; MA038-053001- to MA038-053003-; MA038-146----) are located in adjacent fields c. 200-400 to N and NE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 August 2019

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