Sarsfield’s Way gets its name from the local folklore that Patrick Sarsfield, a legendary cavalry commander in the Jacobite army of the catholic King James II, rested in the woods as he and the remnants of the Jacobite army retreated southwards to Limerick following defeat in the Battle of Aughrim in 1691.

From Derrycrag the route goes south of Woodford through Derrygill Wood where the boulders of ‘Sarsfield’s Chair’ are still visible. The Way continues to Reynafleska and southward through bog, heath and farmland to rejoin the road at Tooreeny and on to Whitegate in County Clare.