What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished enclosure on a Mayo rise, mapped in 1838 as a tree-planted rectangle but reduced by 1998 to a shallow hawthorn-choked curve. It may have been nothing more than a farm boundary, yet its outline still leans against the grass like a forgotten gesture. The land has taken back what the survey marked, leaving only a slight dip and a smell of green decay to suggest that something once stood there.

In pasture, on a rise. There is a small stream 125m to W. A farmyard is located c. 50m to NE. Indicated as a tree-planted subrectangular enclosure (c. 30m E−W; c. 20-25m N−S) on the 1838 OS 6-inch map and as a penannular area defined by a field boundary, open to N, on the 1919 edition. When inspected in 1998 the remains consisted of a roughly C-shaped area (diam. 22.4m NNW−SSE) defined in a broad curve at SSE−NWW by a dilapidated scarp/field bank (Wth 0.8-1m; H 0.6m at NW, 0.9m at SW), engulfed in hawthorn bushes, which followed a natural contour. The ground within the arc of the field bank sloped gently to S. The outline of the subrectangular enclosure show on the 1838 OS 6-inch map could now be traced at ground level. Since then the curving field fence has been removed. The nature of the enclosure shown on the 1838 remains uncertain, but there is no clear evidence that it was a rath or enclosure of archaeological significance. There is a rath (MA080-003----) and a possible enclosure (MA080-002----) 40m and 200m to NNE, respectively. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 November 2021

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.