What is recorded here
No visible trace remains of the Caherhenryhoe ringfort, though grass and time have swallowed its banks. It stood on a hillock in County Galway, large enough to hold a small village or a hundred years of argument. The land keeps its shape even when memory fades, suggesting human hands once bent that ground into a circle.
On the summit of a hillock in undulating grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a
circular enclosure (diam. c. 58m). No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 July 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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