What is recorded here

In Culliagh, Mayo, a hidden ringfort sits in rolling pasture beside heather bog and woodland, its shallow stone bank and grassy interior unchanged since people stopped mapping it. The fairies may have taken the fort from human memory, leaving behind a circular room where shadow and breath still move. What the gods hide from men, they show to children, waiting for a young hand to touch the stone and remember the shape of the world before it forgot itself.

Located in rolling pasture, with a gradual fall of ground to E–SE towards an expanse of heather-covered bog. There is an area of woodland c. 100m to S. This rath is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a slightly raised circular area (24m N–S; 26.5m E–W) defined at N–E by a sod-covered stony bank (Wth 3.5-4m, int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.65m), at ESE–S by a scarp (H 1.4m) with a slightly raised internal rim and at S–N by a scarp (H 1.2m) incorporated at W–NW into a linear field wall. There is a break or slump (Wth 2.5m) in the scarp at E which may be an original entrance. The interior is fairly level; in the W half, there is a slight roughly circular rise (diam. c. 10m) with a slope down to SW towards the rath scarp. The rath interior is grass cover, with a few hawthorn trees around the perimeter. Immediately outside the rath, to W of the field wall, is a sub-circular shallow depression (diam. c. 10m), possibly a quarry pit. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 June 2021

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