What is recorded here
Caherhemush is a stone ringfort on a pasture rise in County Mayo, Ireland. Its circular wall encloses an uneven interior where the northern half has surrendered to overgrowth. People may have lived there before forgetting the name, but the stones still mark the boundary between human memory and fairy speculation.
On a rise in undulating pasture. Circular raised area (42m N-S; 43m E-W), enclosed by remains of stone wall, now piled with clearance. N half of site heavily overgrown. Interior very uneven.
The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 257.
Date of upload: 23 December 2014
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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