What is recorded here

Indicated is a small earthen ringfort in County Mayo pasture, overlooking the Ox Mountains and marked by a low heap of stones beside an ash tree. Tradition claims the heap covers children's graves, yet no markers remain visible on the oval platform. The fort still stands where the land rises slightly, keeping its shape against weather and forgetting.

In pasture, located on a low roughly E−W ridge, with views stretching N to the Ox Mountains. Knocknashee is visible to N, Knocknarae to NNE and Ben Bulben to NE. The Roscommon county boundary is located c. 290m to SW. This rath consists of an oval raised area or platform (19.5m N−S; 11.2m E−W) defined by a sod-covered stony scarp (H 1.4m at N−NW, 0.8m at E & S; Wth slope 2m at N, 1.5m at S). A short section of the scarp is quarried out at SW. According to tradition, there is a children’s burial ground (MA064-002002-) here, but no graves are now evident in the interior; a low heap of stones (c. 4-5m across), adjacent to an ash tree, immediately to SW of the rath, may mark graves. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 June 2020

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