What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort on a Mayo ridge where the ground drops sharply into a stream valley. Its oval bank still holds against pasture and bramble, while a hidden cave lies beneath the south soil. The broken eastern scarp and vanished outer bank suggest people once shaped, used and forgot the place.

In pasture, located at the break of slope on top of the E end of an E-W ridge. The ground falls away steeply at E, S and N but to W the spine of the ridge rises gradually for c. 140m to its summit where another rath (MA062-049----) is sited. There are good views, especially to E along a N-S stream valley. The rath consists of an oval area (22m E-W; 30m N-S) defined SSE−NNW by an earthen bank (W 2.9m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.6m, at W), reduced elsewhere to a scarp (1.3m at S, 1.7m at N). At E the scarp is dilapidated and poorly defined, and part of the ridge slope beneath it has been dug away. Outside the bank/scarp the ephemeral outline of an infilled fosse (Wth 2m) can be traced SE-W, but an external bank, which is shown in an arc S−W on the 1919 OS 6-inch map, has been removed. There is no clearly defined entrance but it may have been somewhere on the E-SE where the enclosing scarp is lowest. There is a Man-made underground passage (MA062-052002-) in the S half of the interior; it is marked as ‘Cave’ on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. Blackthorn, hawthorn, hazel and brambles densely ring the perimeter, and also encroach on the NE quadrant of the interior. Part way down the steep ridge slope at E a trackway, which is cut into the slope, skirts the rath, following a N-S contour on the slope. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 30 November 2020

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.