What is recorded here

Indicated is a faded fairy fort in County Mayo, its double earthen banks reduced to low ridges around a shallow ditch. The western entrance still stands four metres wide, inviting entry into a circle now filled with grass and forgotten time. What lives inside that ring is no longer certain, but the shape remains, holding the last outline of a place people once believed worthy of naming.

In pasture, 150m SW of enclosure (MA100-065----). Circular raised area (30m N-S; 27m E-W), enclosed by two earthen banks, with intervening fosse (D 1.3m). Inner bank (H 0.2m) poorly preserved. Fosse, largely infilled, levelled S to NE; outer bank (ext. H 0.4m) levelled S to E. Ramp entrance (Wth 4.1m) on E. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 131. Date of upload: 1 February 2013

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