What is recorded here
Indicated is a vanished ringfort beside a Mayo farm, its circular boundary swallowed by fields and sheds. The 1837 and 1930 maps still draw it as a small, defensible place, but the land has been levelled and grassed over. It may have housed a family, stored grain or marked a boundary before becoming a farmyard. Now only overgrowth and a clipped track give the old shape back.
Adjacent to a farmstead. This enclosure is shown on the on the 1837 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps as a circular, ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. 20-25m). On the 1930 edition it is shown incorporated into later field boundaries at SW and N, with farm buildings immediately adjacent at NE and SE.
The enclosure has been levelled. The location is grassed over and partly engulfed in overgrowth on the W side, which is bordered by a N–S field boundary. A farm track clips the E side of the location, leading to a cluster of farm sheds immediately to NE. There is a modern dwelling to SE.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 April 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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