What is recorded here

Lisnafairy is a fading circular rath in Ardranny Beg, Galway, where a low northern bank still marks a thirty-eight metre enclosure while modern field boundaries cut across its weakened frame. The name joins an ancient fort with fairies, suggesting people may have spared it from ploughing because they believed it belonged elsewhere. What remains is less a monument than a memory, preserved only because wonder held back the blade longer than intention ever would.

On a slight rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 38m) defined by a low bank best preserved at N. No visible surface trace survives at SSW. A field boundary cuts the monument at NW and NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.