What is recorded here

Indicated is a levelled fairy fort on a narrow Mayo ridge, its thirty-metre circle now hidden beneath straight field walls and ordinary pasture. The land still breaks into a faint curving scarp, with large stones protruding at one edge and a boulder hanging over a dark cavity beneath. It stands at the ridge’s end, looking out over wet valleys and another distant rath, while a farmyard waits thirty metres away. What was built there has been forgotten, but the shape remains just under the soil, waiting to be seen.

Located on the narrow top of an ENE−WSW ridge, at its ENE end where there are very good views over the surrounding landscape. There is a steep fall of ground to S into a valley of flat, wettish pasture bordered to S by another ridge on which another rath (MA080-031----) is located. At N ground falls away to an area of undulating terrain. There is a farmyard 30m to E. This rath is indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m); it is not shown on later map editions. The rath has been levelled, but the faint outline of a slightly raised circular area (diam. 29.5m) defined by a low undulation/levelled scarp can still be discerned. The remains are boxed into a small rectangular field of the modern era: the rath is located at the W end of this field and spans its full N−S width so that straight field walls overlie or truncate the rath perimeter at S, W and N, but the levelled scarp be can be traced as a curving undulation at NNE−SE. At SE a few large stones protrude from the scarp; these may be remnants of a stone facing or kerb. The interior of the rath is level and featureless. A boulder set in the levelled scarp at SSE overhangs a cavity, possibly indicating a Man-made underground passage (MA080-010001-). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 November 2021

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