What is recorded here

Indicated is a possible rath in County Mayo, reduced to a D-shaped platform beside a ruined country house and farm buildings. Its southern curve still holds a shallow internal lip, but roads, sheds and excavated soil have clipped or buried the rest. Laurel bushes now choke the flat top, hiding whatever the enclosure once kept from view.

In the grounds of a ruined 19th-century country house, which stands c. 15m to W of the enclosure, with a range of farm buildings immediately to E. This possible rath is shown on the 1930 OS 6-inch map as a circular hachured enclosure (diam. c. 25m). It survives as an oblong or roughly D-shaped platform (22m N–S; 18m E–W) defined S–W by a curving scarp (H 2m; Wth slope c. 4m), which retains a slight internal lip (Wth 0.8m; int. H 0.1m) and probably preserve the original curve of the enclosure. Elsewhere there is evidence of considerable disturbance: The scarp W–NW is dilapidated and appears to have been modified or partly truncated in the past. At N the scarp (H 1.4m; Wth slope c. 3m) is clipped by an E–W farm road bordered by a wall. The E–SE side of the platform presents a linear vertical scarp (H 2.5-3m) resulting from the truncation of the enclosure to allow construction of a slatted shed, which stands immediately to E. The level top of the platform is engulfed in a thicket of laurel bushes. According to local tradition, soil excavated during the construction of the big house was added to the enclosure. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 February 2023

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