What is recorded here

Cahergal is a massive drystone ringfort on a low Galway ridge, its subcircular wall enclosing grassed-over rooms and a southeast entrance. Field walls radiate outward like spokes from a forgotten wheel, while a trackway still circles the east side. The fort does not shout; it waits, holding the shape of hands that stacked stone long before maps learned its name.

On a low ridge in gently rolling grassland. Well-preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 42.3m, E-W 37.4m) defined by a massive drystone wall. There is an entrance at SE. A number of field walls radiate from the enclosing element and a trackway encircles it at E. Some grassed-over stone walls are visible within the interior. (Kelly 1897, 387; O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 183-4) 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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