What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort on a Mayo ridge where the circular bank became a straight field fence, forcing people to walk through its grassy interior rather than around it. The rath still blocks the narrow pasture like a living boundary, with two small gaps marking the only approved way across. Its SE entrance is now closed by drystone walling, suggesting the fort stopped wanting to be seen or entered.

In pasture, located on the summit of a ridge with excellent views in all directions. Raised circular area (26m N−S; 27.9m E−W) defined by a bank (Wth 2.1m at SSW, 1.7m at NNE; int. H 0.5m at SSW, 0.9m at NNE; ext. H 1.1m at SSW, 1.5m at NNE). The rath spans the full E−W width of a narrow rectangular field, and the E and W arcs of the rath are incorporated into straight field fences. The bank has been adapted to serve as a field fence, and is high, relatively narrow with an almost vertical external slope, faced in parts with drystone walling. It is topped with a post and wire fence on the W arc. Two narrow breaks (Wth 0.4-0.6m) in the rath bank, one at NNE and one at S, allow passage from the N end of the field through the rath interior to the S part of the field. The original entrance may have been at SE where a length (L 2-3m) of drystone walling now blocks a gap/break in the rath bank. The interior is level, and covered by long hummocky grass. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 September 2021

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