What is recorded here

Indicated is a lost ringfort in County Mayo, Ireland, reduced to a slight curve in a property wall and a clipped edge beneath a road. Two enclosures joined on the eastern side in 1838, but human hands and time have levelled the rest into ordinary pasture. The wall still bends where the fort once stood, preserving a shape no longer visible on the ground.

In the NE corner of a pasture field bordered on the N by a road, located on a rise. This monument is probably a ringfort. It is one of two conjoined circular embanked enclosures shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; the second enclosure (MA072-078002) is appended to its E side. By the time of the 1930 map edition, it is depicted as a subrectangular field plot (23m N−S; 24m E−W) defined by field boundaries which retain a slight curve at S−W; the eastern enclosure (MA072-078002) is not shown on 1930 edition. It is also recorded in an aerial photograph (GSI M686 -7 Roll 217, pr. 37; SMR file). The outline of the enclosure can no longer be discerned at ground level. The enclosing element at SE-NW has been levelled. The N edge is clipped by the field wall flanking the E−W road. At E a property wall, oriented roughly N−S, has a slight curve reflecting the original E arc of the enclosure, and it overlies the original junction with the eastern enclosure (MA072-078002-). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 May 2021

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