What is recorded here

Caherapheepa is a hidden Galway burial ground where farmers later dug up rows of pipes instead of bones. Redington believed those pipes marked the dead and gave the cashel its name. The graves vanished beneath cultivation, leaving behind only a strange word and the memory that the earth once kept a smoking vigil.

Within a cashel (GA104-074001-) named 'Caherapheepa'. According to Redington (1916a, 52), 'the garth was once used as a graveyard and when afterwards it was cultivated, numbers of pipes were dug up. Placing pipes on graves was a well-known custom and Redington suggests that the name of the cashel may have originated from this custom. No visible surface trace of the graveyard survives. (McCaffrey 1952, 218-19, no. 1a) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2017

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