What is recorded here

Rath more is a small earthen ringfort on a Mayo rise, its circular bank still holding a hidden passage at the southwest edge while pasture and bog roll away beneath the horizon. The northern bank survives because a boundary fence pressed against it, suggesting that ordinary ownership accidentally protected what erosion everywhere else has softened. The level interior and faint cultivation ridges imply that people lived, worked and perhaps descended into darkness there before the rath became a quiet landmark beside modern houses.

In pasture, located on the top of a rise, which provides good views over the surrounding undulating terrain of mixed pasture and bog. Slightly raised circular area (25.6m N–S; 25m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 2.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m) of earth and stone. The bank is best preserved at N where it has been protected from erosion by an ENE–WSW field/property boundary, which abuts the external face of the bank. Elsewhere the bank is rather low and degraded. Remnants of a rough stone kerb are evident on the inner face of the bank at W. The interior is level, with traces of cultivation ridges on a NW–SE axis. There is an opening into a Man-made underground passage (MA038-022002-) in the SW quadrant, and a slight surface depression to W of centre may also be indicative of the Man-made underground passage. The boundary fences of residential properties lie immediately to E and S of the rath. There is another rath (MA038-024----) 130m to SSE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 July 2019

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