What is recorded here

Indicated is an oval cashel in County Galway grassland, sixty-four metres long and fifty-one wide, marked by a damaged drystone wall and intermittent double facing. Rubble from later farming sits against the stones while a field wall cuts through the northeast and southwest, reducing the ancient boundary to a buried suggestion. The northern half still shows internal divisions, but the southern half has surrendered to reclamation, leaving the fort half-remembered beneath ordinary pasture.

In gently undulating grassland. Named 'Cahergon Fort' on OS Fair Plan, what survives is an oval cashel (E-W 64m, N-S 51m) defined by a poorly preserved drystone wall. Though grassed-over, and partly destroyed at S, double wall-facing is evident intermittently. Rubble from land reclamation has been dumped on top and against it. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SW. The S half of the interior has been reclaimed but a number of internal divisions are visible in N half. A gap at NNE could be original. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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