What is recorded here

Cahercrin is a circular cashel on a Galway pasture rise, its drystone wall enclosing a hidden world of underground passage and mortar-bound rooms. The land still breathes through a narrow south-east gap while a laneway cuts the north-east quadrant, inviting entry into what density now conceals. People may have lived beneath and above the ring, using the fort as both home and threshold between the visible and the forgotten.

On a rise in pastureland. Circular cashel (diam. 50.4m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall. A gap (Wth c. 2m) at SSE may be original. A laneway cuts through the NE quadrant. Redington (1916a, 56) and Westropp (1919a, 181) refer to the presence of a Man-made underground passage (GA096-030001-) as well as late house foundations and several rectangular enclosures within the interior; some of the walls were built with mortar. Due to the dense overgrowth, trees and bushes none of these features could be identified. (McCaffrey 1952, 152, no. 25) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2017

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