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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Caheratrim (dunkellin By.),lackan (dunkellin By.)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Caheratrim holds a worn stone ring where a straight field wall now cuts across the ancient boundary. The eastern wall still rises above grass while the western edge has vanished into pasture, suggesting the land itself forgot the shape. A hidden passage beneath the eastern soil remains the clearest proof that people once built the circle for life, not decoration.
In level pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 34.8m) defined by an overgrown wall which is best preserved at E. A field wall cuts through the monument from NW to SE and little trace of the enclosing element survives to the SW it. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA114-035001-) in the E half of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 284, no. 26) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2018

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