What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort on a Mayo ridge where the ground drops sharply toward Mannin Lake. Its oval platform still holds the shape of hands that built it, though no human name remains attached to the work. The forgotten maker may have lived there beside the water, marking the ridge with a boundary visible only when the lake fog rises.

In pasture, located on a NW–SE ridge. The ground shelves away steeply for 160m to SW to the shore of Mannin Lake. Slightly raised, broadly oval area (31.5m N–S; 35.6m E–W) defined by a partly levelled scarp (H 0.6m), outside which it is enclosed by a fosse (Wth 2.2m at SW) with remnants of an external bank (Wth 2.6m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m, at SW). The central platform is relatively level and appears to have been built up on the W half to compensate for the natural fall of ground to NW and SW. The fosse is evident as a shallow depression. The external bank survives at S–NW as a low, dilapidated earth and stone bank; it is levelled at NNW–NE to a slight surface undulation; it is subsumed at ENE–SE into a field fence which preserves the curve of the rath and at SSE–S is levelled to a barely discernible surface rise. Grass cover, with hawthorn bushes around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 February 2022

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