What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken ringfort on a Mayo rise, its stony scarp still standing beside rough pasture and small fields. People quarried part of the wall and built another wall upon it, yet the circular shape remains visible through blackthorn, moss and pasture. It is the kind of place where human hands kept taking, changing and remembering the same stone circle.

In rough pasture, located on a rise with good views over the surrounding stony terrain, which is subdivided into a network of small fields, dotted with field clearance heaps and enclosed by drystone walls. There is a stream 200m to S. Raised circular area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a sod-covered stony scarp (H 1.4m at N; 1.6m at S) which is faced and topped by remnants of a wall. At NE the basal courses of the wall remain in place. At W−N the scarp is incorporated into/topped by a later field wall. A portion (L 9m) of the scarp on the SE arc has been quarried out. The interior is level, but has an uneven surface, strewn with stones, with a dense moss- and sod-covered concentration in the centre. A dense thicket of blackthorn encroaches on the NW arc of the cashel. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 5 May 2021

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