What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Derryfrench, County Galway: a subcircular earthen ringfort on a pasture rise, with two banks, a fosse, a possible eastern gap and a man-made underground passage in the west interior. People may have lived there, hidden there or avoided it after dark; the earth still keeps the shape of that choice.

On a rise in undulating pastureland. Subcircular rath (42.6m N-S; 33.5m E-W), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank with traces of internal stone-facing survives from N to E, elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse is most clearly visible around the W half of the monument. The outer bank survives from S through W to NNE; field-clearance rubble is packed against it from W to N. A gap (Wth 4m) at E may be original. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA0116-046001-) in W half of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 December 2017

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