What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Caheratrim is a broken stone circle on a low rise, with a dark passage hidden inside the northwest grass. The field wall has eaten part of the ancient edge, yet the hole remains for someone brave enough to look down.
On a rise in otherwise level pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 26.8m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall; no visible surface trace survives at E. A field wall overlies the enclosing element from W to N. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA114-033001-) in the NW quadrant of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 281, no. 53)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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