What is recorded here

Indicated is a moss-choked stone ring in Mayo pasture, blocking a valley stream and tempting cattle into its grassy center. The bank has no door, suggesting the fort was built for something that does not need human entry. It may have been a farmhouse, a boundary marker, or a place where the local people stopped asking questions and listened instead.

In pasture, located in lowlying damp ground on the E side of a small N−S stream valley. There is an expanse of flat bog 100m to N. This possible cashel is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is depicted on the 1930 edition as a subcircular enclosure outlined by a solid line. Roughly circular, very slightly raised area (23m E−W; 24m N−S) enclosed by a stone bank (Wth 3m at E, 4.3m at W; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.9m at W). The stone bank is evident as a moss- and sod-covered jumble of stones, many of which are small and medium-sized –no intact wall facing or masonry structure is visible. It serves as a field fence on the E half. There is no obvious break or entrance gap. The interior is flat and grassy. Remnants of a field wall (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) extends from the stone bank at W across the interior for 10m to the centre, ending in an expanded terminal (Wth 7m N−S). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 February 2021

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