What is recorded here
Carnaun holds two cashels forty-five metres apart, creating a paired fortress rather than a lonely outlier. The main ring measures twenty metres across, wearing a low drystone wall that grass has slowly swallowed. Field walls radiate south, southwest and west from its base, proving the site controlled a busy landscape instead of sitting abandoned in empty moorland. People likely lived, argued, farmed or hid inside that small circle before memory faded. The earth still expects witness, even when the wall has become a ridge.
Within a field system (GA084-040002-), c. 45m to the SE of another cashel (GA084-040003-). Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (20m N-S) defined by a low grassed-over drystone wall. A
number of field walls associated with the field system radiate from the monument at S, SW and W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 20 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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