What is recorded here

Indicated is a stony ringfort set into the western edge of a Mayo terrace, where a five-metre bedrock scarp drops away like a cliff forgotten by time. Its oval bank rises nearly two metres at the south, thick enough to suggest deliberate building rather than casual heap, yet the eastern gap remains ambiguous, perhaps an entrance or perhaps only erosion. The fort faces the void instead of the land, as if its builders valued the drop more than the view. A hundred metres west, another rath watches the same edge, doubling the strangeness of a boundary marked twice.

In pasture, located at the break of slope on the W side of a natural terrace or rise. A bedrock scarp with a steep drop, borders the W edge of the terrace. It is located close to the townland boundary at the W end of the townland. Raised oval area (28.9m N–S; 22.4m E–W) defined by a substantial stony earthen bank (Wth 4.7m at N and S; int. H 0.5m at N, 0.65m at S; ext. H 1.5m at N, 1.8m at S). The bank is well defined, rounded in profile. An eroded section at NW reveals an earthen make-up with a core of angular, slatey stones. On the W side, the bank is noticeably less substantial (Wth 2.8m; H 0.5m). Outside it is a narrow berm (Wth c. 0.5m) from which the natural bedrock scarp (H c. 5.5m) falls abruptly. A very shallow depression (Wth c. 4.5m; D 0.2m) is evident outside the bank at N, which might indicate a fosse, but it cannot be traced elsewhere around the circuit. The interior is level, grassy and featureless. There is a rather narrow gap (Wth 1.2m) in the bank at the E, with stones protruding from the sod around its edges, but is unclear if this is the original entrance. There is another rath (MA022-065----) 100m to W. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 May 2019

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