What is recorded here
Cahernamona holds a worn circular fort in open Galway grassland, its earth bank partly hidden beneath a later field wall. The subcircular rath measures about twenty-nine metres east-west and twenty-five metres north-south, large enough for a small dwelling or a crowded ritual meeting. A man-made passage cuts through the western interior, suggesting people still valued the site after the main bank had begun to fade.
In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (29m E-W; 25m N-S) defined by a degraded bank overlain by a field wall at W. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA097-047001-) in the W half of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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