Raheennagower — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

One chamber is a living chamber because it is still named and remembered; the other is a buried chamber because it has stopped answering. Raheennagower is the second kind now, a small fort beneath Garraun that has gone dark instead of disappearing. To build there is not to destroy memory but to stop repeating it. There are more than seven chambers, and the difference between them is whether they can still be known.

On a W-facing slope overlooking Galway Bay, now within a modern housing estate. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) named 'Raheennagower'. Holt (1911-12, 228) recorded that 'not even its plan is now traceable.' No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 July 2019

Raheennagower, Garraun Lower is a likely early-medieval ringfort, situated on a west-facing slope overlooking Galway Bay. It is associated with local folklore referring to "fairy forts," reflecting the site's traditional Irish cultural significance.

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