What is recorded here
No visible stone remains in Caherglassaun grassland, though a low ring once stood forty metres across above the lough. It vanished under grass and forgetting, leaving only the memory of a boundary where human hands had arranged rock. The fairies may have taken it back, or the land may have simply swallowed what it no longer needed. Either way, the absence is the shape of the fort now: a hollow circle the mind completes.
In grassland overlooking Caherglassaun Lough to the S. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 40m N-S; c. 36m E-W). Described in 1967 as a 'ring of stones ... low and wide and with some scrub' (SMR file). No visible surface trace survives. An enclosure (GA122-030----) lay c. 200m to the NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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