What is recorded here

Indicated is a fairy fort or stone ringfort in Derrygirraun, County Roscommon, Ireland. The 1914 Ordnance Survey map marked it as a Cashel on a slight ridge towards the bottom of an east-facing drumlin slope. A circular area about 32 metres across now holds a garden bounded by a low scarp, drystone wall, masonry wall and farm buildings. Rath lies roughly 190 metres to the south-southwest.

Marked as an antiquity only on the 1914 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described in gothic lettering as a 'Cashel', and situated on a slight ridge towards the bottom of the E-facing slope of a drumlin. Circular area (diam. c. 32m) which is used as a garden defined by a scarp (H 0.4m) E-S, a drystone wall S-NW, a masonry wall NW-N and farm buildings N-E. Rath (RO004-046----) is c. 190m to the SSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

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