Cahergorman, fairy fort or stone ringfort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a gentle rise in grazing land. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 38.4m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by a field boundary at E. Traces of inner and outer wall-facing are visible intermittently. A field boundary cuts across the monument at and S and field clearance-rubble obscures the enclosing element at N. A ouse site (GA103-079----) lies c. 60m to the (McCaffrey 1952, 188, no. 57) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 January 2017

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA103-078

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