What is recorded here

Caherkelly holds a thirty-metre earthen ring on a pasture rise, possibly strengthened with stone, while an underground passage cuts through its north-west interior. The site may have served as a defensive home or a boundary marker for a local community. It is also called a fairy fort in local tradition, a name that often marks places people avoided or feared. The surviving bank and hidden passage suggest the site remained active long after its original builders left it behind.

On a rise in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 30m) defined by a degraded earthen bank, which was possibly revetted with stone. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA114-038001-) in the NW quadrant of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 282 no. 49a; SMR file) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 January 2017

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