Field system in Caherakeeny — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Caherakeeny holds a lost landscape where low stony banks still mark fields above seasonal floodland. The remains stretch across a wide NW-facing slope, preserving shapes that no longer obey a single human plan. Rectangular house foundations near the northern edge suggest people once lived beside these boundaries, perhaps watching water rise and retreat below them. What is certain is that the land kept being used, changed and forgotten until the fields became a pattern only birds can still read.

On a NW-facing slope overlooking seasonal floodland. Aerial reconnaissance in September 1984 (ASGAP 148:53-5) revealed a series of field boundaries extending over an area c. 600m NE-SW by c. 400m NW-SE. These are predominantly defined by low grassed-over stony banks. Though a number of subrectangular fields are visible at SW, the bulk of the remains form no coherent pattern. A number of rectangular house foundations were noted close to NW limits: possibly indicating an associated settlement cluster. 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

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.