What is recorded here
Lisnagregga is a ruined cashel on a Galway ridge, its collapsed wall barely visible beneath grass and time. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the shape resisted human explanation or because the land remembered what humanity forgot. What remains is a circle wide enough for a small life, marked only by scattered stone and the certainty that someone once drew a line between inside and outside.
On a low ridge in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 26.8m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. (McCaffrey 1952, 187, no. 53)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2017
Lisnagregga, Caherpeak West is a roughly circular, poorly preserved early-medieval cashel, likely dating to between the 6th and 10th centuries, situated on a low ridge in undulating pastureland. No specific folklore or historical traditions are recorded for this site.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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