What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined earthen ringfort on a Mayo drumlin terrace, its double banks and ditch still marking a subcircular space thirty-five metres across. Cattle have poached the outer face of the broad inner bank, and a later field wall cuts through the overgrown middle, but the SE gap and remaining drystone facing preserve the shape of a place built to be seen from every direction except the higher ground to the south. It is the kind of fort where the boundary is still legible even when the life inside has disappeared, a quiet claim on the landscape made of soil, stone and patience.

In pasture on a level terrace just N of the highest point of a drumlin, with excellent views everywhere apart from higher ground to the S. An overgrown subcircular area (int. diams. 35m NNE-SSW; 31m NNW-SSE) is defined by the remains of an inner and an outer earthen bank and an intervening fosse. The broad inner bank (int. H 0.5-1.1m; Wth 5-8m; ext. H 1.3-2.5m) has inner drystone facing surviving at W (H 0.35m) and its outer face is poached by livestock. A gap (Wth 3m) at SE may be the original entrance. The fosse (Wth 1.22.6m; D 0.4m) survives from S-W-NE. The second, outer bank (int. H above base of fosse 0.2m; av. Wth 6.5m; ext. H 0.8m) only survives from SW-NW-NE. The overgrown interior is bisected by a later field wall running NNE–SSW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 3-11-2025

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