What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human origins wearing a misleading name, and this is one of them: an earthen ringfort in Curheen, County Galway. Its oval measure is about fifty metres north-south and forty-five east-west, with a causewayed entrance gap at the north-east and a field wall bordering the south and south-west. The folklore is a later invention; the earthwork is the fact.

In undulating rough pastureland. Poorly preserved oval rath (c. 50m N-S; c. 45m E-W) defined by a bank and fosse with traces of a possible outer bank at NNW. There is a causewayed entrance gap at NNE. The fosse is visible from S through W to NNW. A field wall borders the monument from S to SW. See also GA105-073001-. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 December 2017

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