What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland, where a thirty-six-metre earthen ring has surrendered parts of its boundary to field walls and pasture. Stone fragments still cling to the vertical neck of the bank, proving the earth was once shaped and defended before human fences cut through its middle. The missing western arc does not disappear so much as it becomes ordinary, hiding inside the living landscape instead of resisting it.

On a slight rise in average grassland, with an expanse of rough heathery pasture immediately to SW-W. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 36.5m N-S) defined a scarp/bank. At NE–SW the scarp (W of slope 1.7m; H 1.3m at NE; 1.5m at SE) has a relatively vertical external face, which exhibits remnants of stone facing, suggesting it has been modified to serve as a field fence. At SW-W a short length of bank (W 2.7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.1m) survives; it has been levelled to a slight undulation at W-NNE. A property wall, on a NNE-SSW axis, bisects the interior to E of centre. Another field wall, reduced now to a low stony rise, extends E-W through the W half of the interior, intersecting at its E end with the NNE-SSW wall. In the E half of the interior there is a low stony bank (W 2.6m; H 0.4m; L 8m) forming a shallow arc E–NW. The rath perimeter is ringed with overgrowth at N-W. There is another rath (MA038-108----) 200m to NW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 August 2019

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