What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort on a Mayo ridge, overlooking rolling grassland and hiding faint cultivation ridges inside its oval scarps. Cattle have worn its breaks smooth, yet the land still holds the shape of hands that lived there before memory faded.

In pasture, located on top of a ridge, with a fall of ground to E and S providing excellent views over a broad sweep of rolling grassland. Views are less extensive to NW along the top of the ridge. Broadly oval area (42.7m E–W; 47m N–S) defined SE–ENE by a scarp (Wth slope 2.7m ; H 1.6m), which retains a low internal lip in parts, and enclosed by an external fosse (Wth c. 3m) which is visible as a shallow depression. There is no clearly defined entrance, but it may have been on the E side where the scarp has been levelled to a broad slump merging with the natural slope. There are also low breaks in the scarp at W (2.7m) and N (Wth c. 3m), which are poorly defined and eroded by cattle. The interior is level and exhibits very faint traces of cultivation ridges on an WNW–ESE axis. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 February 2022

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