What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland. It is a broadly oval earthen platform about thirty-six metres long, rising nearly two metres above the pasture and marked by a low ramp at one edge that may have been an entrance. Hawthorn, gorse and bramble still ring the scarp, while modern houses stand close beside it. The fort may have been a boundary marker, a ritual place or a warning not to disturb what sleeps beneath the grass.

In pasture, straddling a low rise with a gentle fall of ground to NE, in an area of undulating pasture and patches of bog. There are modern houses immediately to W, NW and E. A broadly oval platform (35.9m NW-SE; 31.7m NE-SW) defined by an earthen scarp (H 1.9m at NE, 1.7m at SW). The interior slopes gently from centre to NE−E. The scarp has a relatively fairly vertical external face for most of the circuit but has a low ramp-like slope (Wth c. 5m) at SSE, which may indicate an original entrance. The rath is moderately ringed with hawthorn bushes, gorse and clumps of brambles; the interior is grassy. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 23 February 2022

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