What is recorded here

Boleymeelagh,cregduff (kilmaine By., Kilcommon Par.) is a circular enclosure on a small hillock beneath a ridge-top rath in County Mayo. A straight field wall still cuts the ancient circle in two, dividing a preserved western semicircle from an eastern area largely lost under a concrete silage pit. The place preserves a rare collision of old boundary and modern farming, with human ambition pressing across centuries rather than erasing them.

In pasture in gently undulating terrain, on a small hillock at the base of the S-facing slope of a ridge, on top of which a rath (MA119-003----) is located. Not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. A raised circular area enclosed by a possible fosse and external bank, and crossed centrally by a field boundary on a NNW−SSE axis, is recorded in an aerial photograph (SMR file: CUCAP AYR 85). When inspected in 2000, the transecting NNW−SSE field wall was intact, but the rath (on both side of the wall) had been levelled. To W of the field wall, a raised semicircular area (c. 36m N−S; c. 22m E−W; H c. 1.7m), can be still be traced defined on the straight side by the wall; immediately E of the wall, a very slight rise (c. 16m E−W) can be traced at SE but the original E and NE portions of the rath are obliterated by a concrete silage pit (28m NNW−SSE; 13m NE−WSW). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 May 2023

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