What is recorded here

Indicated is a gently domed hillock in County Mayo pasture, mapping as a circular enclosure near Colemans Lough. Its flattish top carries a short bank set with a large boulder that local tradition claims served as a mass rock, while a scarped base and missing boundary suggest human hands shaped the natural mound. The place holds the quiet danger of forgotten making, where pasture, water and memory blend into one uncertain boundary.

In undulating pasture, located on a hillock. A flat expanse of boggy pasture, which lies to N, is shown on the 1837-8 OS 6-inch map as a small lake, named ‘Colemans Lough’. This enclosure is shown on the 1837-8 OS map as a circular, ringfort-like enclosure (diam. c. 40m), and on the 1922 edition as a penannular, hachured area (diam. c. 35-40m) open to NE. At the location there is gently domed knoll or hillock (c. 35m E-W; c. 30m N-S; H c. 2m to SW; 3m to NE), roughly oval in plan, with a flattish top and broadly sloping sides. The sides slope quite steeply, and are scarped (H 0.9m) at their base at S-W. It has the appearance of a natural hillock; it may have been modified in the past to form an enclosure, however, no clearly defined enclosing element is now evident. The flattish top (diam. c. 13.5m) is traversed by a discrete length of bank (L 9m NNW-SSE) incorporating a single large boulder, which according to local tradition, was used as mass rock (MA031-008001-). There is a possible Man-made underground passage (MA031-073----) c. 130m to SW, and a possible rath (MA031-007----) c. 220m to W. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 June 2018

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