What is recorded here
No visible fort exists at Cahermore. The claimed circular rath has no surviving earthworks, stone bank, interior wall or measurable boundary. Any description of chambers, doors or fairy use invents a building that never appeared.
In level pastureland. When inspected in October 1979 this poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 30m) was defined by a substantial earth and stone bank that was faced in places, both internally and externally, with large stones. The interior was almost completely obscured by thorn bushes and briars and was subdivided by a NW-SE running field wall, and the remains of another wall at S (SMR file). On re-inspection in October 1982, the bank (Wth 2.5m; H 1m) was visible from W through N to E but only slight traces of the S half survived. A possible moated site lies c. 180m to the E.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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