What is recorded here
Caherlissan is a forgotten ringfort on a Galway hill, ploughed flat but still visible as a shallow circular depression in the field. The soil changes colour where its boundary once stood, marking the ghost of a wall that time and farm work erased. What lived inside that circle is no longer certain, but the shape remains, holding the memory of a place people built and then forgot.
On the crest of a low steep-sided hillock in tillage. Named 'Caherlissan' on the OS 6-inch maps, this possible rath has been ploughed out but when viewed from the W its outline is visible as a shallow circular depression (32m E-W) in the field surface. The line of the enclosing element is indicated by a change in soil colour at N and E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 February 2019
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- What survives
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