What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort crowning a Mayo rise, its earth bank cut vertical and faced with stones that have tumbled into two later field fences. Local tradition claims an underground passage waits beneath the brambles, though the impenetrable thicket still hides the truth. The fort stands at thirty metres across, watching pasture and bog while keeping its own secret intact.

In in pasture in the SE corner of the townland, crowning a prominent rise, which affords good views over an undulating landscape of pasture and bog. Raised roughly circular area (31m N–S; c. 30-35m E–W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.2m, at W; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 1.75m at W, 1.7m at E, 1.9m at S). The bank shows evidence of modification: the external face has been cut to the vertical and roughly faced with stones (largely tumbled now), and at S–SW and W–NW it has been incorporated into two later field fences. There is a break (Wth 1.4m) at the top of the bank at W, but no clearly defined entrance feature. According to local tradition, there is a Man-made underground passage (MA092-041001-) in the rath interior. The interior is engulfed in an impenetrable thicket of brambles, impeding inspection; the bank is thickly ringed with hawthorn and gorse. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 11 March 2022

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