What is recorded here

Indicated is a large fairy fort in County Mayo, Ireland, measuring nearly ninety metres across and marked by a low scarp that still holds a faint internal rim. Tractors now drive through a broken section at the northeast, and farm stock has worn narrow gaps in the earth, yet a square platform remains in the northwest quadrant. The site belongs to the ordinary world of living people, but its size and hidden shape keep it tied to the strange boundary between the seen and the unseen.

Large, slightly raised subcircular area (83m N–S; 94.7m E–W) defined by a scarp (H 1.5m at E, 1.25m at W; H 0.5m at N), which retains a hint of an internal rim in parts. At SE–S where it has been incorporated into a later field fence, the scarp is topped by a dilapidated bank of earth and stone, and a small water tank is set into the bank. Immediately outside the scarp on the SW arc there is a very shallow depression (Wth c. 4m) bordered on its external edge by a slight rise; these features may be the remains of a fosse and external bank. The location of the original entrance is unclear. There are several narrow breaks in the scarp, eroded by farm stock, and at NE there is a low section (Wth 3.5m) which allows tractor access to the interior. The interior is level and exhibits very faint traces of cultivation ridges on a NE–SW axis. In the NW quadrant immediately adjacent to the scarp, there is a low square platform (c. 9m NNW–SSE; 9.6m ENE–WSW; H 0.4m) with a slightly raised rim on the N and S sides. Grass cover; post and wire fence on E−W axis immediately to S of rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 February 2022

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