What is recorded here

Caherconnaught Fort is a worn circular rath in County Galway, Ireland, measuring about 40m across. Two faint banks and a shallow ditch still trace most of its edge, though a field wall now cuts through the east and west sides. It sits 200m east of another ringfort, suggesting a small cluster of occupied or avoided ground rather than a lonely marker. The name and form leave room for a household, a boundary dispute or a fairy warning, but the earth itself has kept only a rough ring behind which human urgency has gone quiet.

Some 200m E of a ringfort (GA042-081----). Poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 40m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse from WSW through N to E. A field wall cuts the monument at E and WSW, and only a degraded scarp survives to SE of it. 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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