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Cathair Inse

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Cathair Inse
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Cathair Inse is a 45-metre circular cashel on a NW-facing ridge in County Galway, its drystone wall buried under grass from SSW to WSW. The lost wall does not disappear so much as surrender to grass and time, while the surviving curve still marks the edge of a place set apart. An extensive field system lies 200m to SE, suggesting the fort watched over far more than its own small circle.
On NW-facing slope of a low ridge surrounded by rock outcrop. Circular cashel (D 45m) defined by a low grassed-over drystone wall, no visible surface trace of which survives from SSW to WSW. An extensive field system (GA057-067002-) lies c. 200m to SE. 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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