What is recorded here

Indicated is a twenty-metre fairy fort on a slow Mayo rise where a stream loops around its southern edge like a boundary marker. Its stony scarp still holds a shallow hollow and a hidden bullaun beneath a hawthorn, suggesting people once visited the ring before ferns and conifers reclaimed the memory. The lowest eastern slope faces a natural causeway, inviting entry into a place the land still treats as alive.

In pasture, located on a slow rise at a bend in a stream; the course of the stream passes close to the S side of the rath and then loops around to W and N. Views are good, but somewhat restricted by surrounding rising ground. Raised circular area or platform (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarp (Wth ext. slope 3.6m H 1.5m at S). The scarp retains a slightly raised internal lip in parts at S and N, and has a noticeably stony top –some of the stone may be the result of field clearance. There is no clearly defined entrance, but it may have been on the E side where the enclosing scarp is lowest, and faces a low rise immediately outside the rath, which forms a natural causeway-like feature. The interior is level, with a dip or shallow hollow (c. 4m across) in the SE quadrant. A bullaun stone (MA040-058001-) is located beneath a hawthorn tree in the SE of the interior. Accumulations of field clearance boulders are scattered along the E−SE edge of the interior. The rath is partly covered in ferns and overgrowth, with several conifers trees planted in the interior. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 May 2020

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