What is recorded here

Indicated, Cahernalee was a rectangular bawn beside a tower house in County Galway, large enough for daily life but small enough to know every stone by heart. Grass and hawthorn have since swallowed much of the work, leaving only broken wall lines and a stone-lined pit to hint at the hands that built it. The place still holds the shape of a home, waiting for someone to remember what the stones repeated.

This rectangular bawn (30.2m N-S; 22.3m E-W) is associated with a tower house (GA097-044----) which occupies its N half. It survives as a grassed-over mound with internal and external revetment visible intermittently and it is best preserved along the S side (Wth 1.15m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m). Hawthorn trees are growing along the W side. Large limestone blocks and collapsed chunks of mortared stone are strewn about the N end of the interior. A large stone-lined pit is visible at NE. A number of breaches occur but the original entrance was not discernible. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 30 August 2021

Cahernalee was likely built by a local Gaelic family in the late medieval period, probably between the 15th and 16th centuries. It is remembered as an example of a defended tower house and bawn typical of the Irish landscape during this era.

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