Ballinderreen Fort, fairy fort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In level pastureland. Roughly circular rath (diam. 61m), in fair condition, defined by a bank overlain from NW through N to NE by a field boundary. Another field boundary cuts through the monument at NW and SE. Field-clearance rubble is piled on the bank at S. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA108-008001-) in the SW quadrant of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 177, no. 106) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 October 2016

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA103-008

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