Bawn in Cahernamuck West — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Eleven continuous metres of limestone still stand along the south bank in Cahernamuck West, marking the buried edge of a fortified bawn. The tower house once rose above its southeast corner, casting a long shadow across the earth and stone below. Men may have walked that narrow ridge, watching the moat water or listening for horses on the far road. The preserved wall does not decorate the field; it remembers the shape of a household that stopped speaking but never stopped holding its ground.

The inner bank of a moated site (GA097-051001-) is composed mainly of earth but it is topped with a stone wall that may be the remains of a bawn wall associated with the tower house (GA097-051----), which overlies its SE corner. Wall revetment is visible intermittently on both faces of the bank and is best preserved along the S side where a continuous stretch is visible for a length of 11m. Here the wall (Wth 1.3m; H 0.3m) is constructed of large blocks of limestone inner and outer facing stones and a rubble core. A later field wall runs along the N two-thirds of the W bank and the W end of the N bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 December 2019 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1991).

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