Cahemaman Fort — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Three faded banks and two hollows still mark a 35-metre circle in Galway grassland, though ploughing has rubbed much of its edge into memory. It is called Cahemaman Fort, a fairy fort in local story, and that name suggests people once kept its shape alive because the land refused to explain itself. A second ringfort waits two hundred metres east, as if the field held more than one claim to being seen.

In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 35m) defined by three denuded banks and two intervening fosses. A field boundary cuts the monument at S and W, to SW of which ploughing has almost completely levelled the middle and outer banks. A second wall overlies the outer bank from E to S. Within the interior, traces of earthworks, possibly associated, are visible. A ringfort (GA042-082----) lies c. 200m to E. (Killanin and Duignan 1969, 304-5) 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

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