What is recorded here

Caherapheepa is a ruined stone ringfort in County Galway, reduced by field clearance to a collapsed northern section overlooking a turlough. It once held two concentric drystone walls, an internal dividing wall, and a hidden underground passage, while local memory claimed the interior served as a graveyard. The missing majority does not disappear; it waits beneath pasture, unchanged and patient, waiting for someone to stop measuring and start listening.

In reclaimed pastureland overlooking a turlough to the E. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 218-19, no. 1a) as a ‘Stone fort’ (diam. 49.4m overall) defined by two concentric drystone walls. An internal wall ran N-S through the interior. The monument has been almost completely cleared as a result of field-clearance operations and only a section at NE now survives. Both walls are in a collapsed state and lie c. 7m apart. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA104-074002-) in the N half of the interior. According to Redington (1916a, 52), the interior was once used as a graveyard (GA104-074003-). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2017

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