What is recorded here
Cloonnahaha held a circular cashel nearly thirty metres wide, though grass and time have erased its stones from sight. It stood close to the Cannahowna River, perhaps watching water or keeping people safe from the dark. Another ringfort waited further south, suggesting this was not a lonely experiment but a shared human choice. The forges and kitchens are gone, yet the shape remains in memory, waiting for someone to imagine the lives it held.
In pastureland some 90m to the W of the Cannahowna River. Marked on the OS maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m). No visible surface trace survives. This was probably a cashel, possibly similar to the one (GA122-004----) c. 370m to the SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 21 February 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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