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Cahermore

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
Cahermore
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Cahermore is a ruined circular cashel in County Galway, its forty-two-metre diameter marked only by a collapsed drystone wall and thick overgrowth. It sits a hundred metres from another fort, suggesting a crowded landscape where human ambition met resistant earth. The stones may have fallen before memory faded, leaving behind a hollow ring that swallows shadow instead of holding life.
Some 100m to the ESE of another cashel (GA104-090----). This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 42m) is defined by a collapsed drystone wall, which is overlain a later field wall at S. The interior is heavily overgrown. (McCaffrey 1952, 222, no. 5) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 January 2017

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