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Cahermore GA103-055---- in Caherapheepa

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

On gentle rise in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved roughly oval cashel (74.4m N-S; 58.6m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. There are many internal divisions within the interior and a house site (GA103-055002-) is visible at SW. A Man-made underground passage (GA103-055001-) lies just outside the monument to NW. (Redington 1916a, 52; McCaffrey 1952, 185, no. 92) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2017

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA103-055

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GA103-055----
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