What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort in County Mayo, an oval earthen platform thirty-eight metres across on a rise overlooking bog and pasture. People quarried half the interior two metres deep through a fifteen-metre break in the scarp, taking soil or stone while leaving the western curve and outer bank behind. The land gave up part of itself to human wanting, yet the ring still stands complete enough to see, marked by a field bank and a grassy rim where the edge of the old enclosure can still be traced.

In pasture, located on a rise with very good views of the surrounding undulating landscape, with higher ground to S and NW and a lowlying expanse of boggy land to SE. A broadly oval platform (38m NW–SE; c. 43m NE–SW) defined at SE–NW by a scarp (H 1.3m). Outside the scarp on the W arc there is slight evidence of a fosse (Wth c. 3.5m), defined on its outer edge at SW–W by a field bank (Wth 2-2.4m; H 1.4m) which partly respects the curve of the fosse and may preserve the line of an original outer bank. A slight rise outside the fosse at NW may also be a levelled outer bank. The NE half of the interior has been entirely quarried out to a depth of c. 2m below original interior surface level, with access gained through a 15m break in the scarp at NNW–N. The E edge of the quarry pit is defined by a raised rim (Wth 3.5-4m; ext. H 0.7m) curving NNE−ESE which may preserve the original perimeter of the enclosure. A later field boundary on a NE–SW axis lies immediately to S of the enclosures, slightly truncating the enclosing scarp. Grass cover. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 February 2022

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