What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Derrygirraun, County Roscommon, Ireland. It occupies the crest of a west-facing drumlin slope and presents a circular grass-covered area roughly twenty-three metres east-west and twenty-one and a half metres north-south. An overgrown earthen bank surrounds the interior, reducing to a scarp along the south-southwest and west-southwest, while a shallow outer fosse cuts across the northeast and northwest. No entrance remains visible.

At the crest of the W-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 23m E-W; 21.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (at N: Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.9m; generally: Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.1-0.4m; ext. H 0.95m) which is reduced to a scarp SSW-WSW, and an outer fosse (Wth of top 3-3.5m; Wth of base 1.25-2m; D 0.2-0.5m) NE-NW. There is no recognisable entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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