What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not for us, they warned, but the ringfort in Caherbroder still stands with two stone walls, a narrow eastern gap and a hidden passage beneath its grass. It is large enough to hold a small town of shadows, yet quiet enough that those shadows may have only waited for people to stop believing they could enter. St Patrick is named near the place through a worn stone, which suggests the boundary between human and fairy was never distant, only negotiable.

On a low rise in grassland. Well-preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 29.6m) defined by two grass-covered drystone walls and an intervening fosse. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 1.6m) at E. At SSW a curving grass-covered stone wall (L c. 10m) abuts the outer enclosing element. A Man-made underground passage (GA128-027----) lies in the SW quadrant of the interior. A bullaun stone (GA128-031----), which is traditionally associated with St Patrick, lies c. 50m to the N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2017

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