What is recorded here

Caheraphuca is a ruined stone ringfort in Galway pastureland, reduced to thick foundations and a hidden underground passage. It is the kind of place where human urgency became animal memory, leaving behind a circle large enough to exclude everyone but small enough to belong to someone.

In pastureland. This cashel was described by Redington (1916a, 53) as being levelled to the foundations with 'walls 6 ft. [1.8m] thick'. Another wall constructed of 'very large stones' was visible a few metres to the E. There was a 'gateway' on the E side of the inner wall but no corresponding gap was evident in the possible outer wall. There was a Man-made underground passage (GA096-114001-) in the S sector of the interior. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 159, no. 88) as a ‘very ruinous’ circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 26.8m) defined by a drystone wall. On inspection the monument was densely overgrown and the enclosing element was completely obscured. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 January 2018

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