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Cahermore

Fairy fort / ringfort

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Cahermore is a well-preserved circular cashel in Galway grassland, its drystone wall enclosing thirty-five metres of forgotten life. The eastern entrance, nearly three metres wide, still stands open to the sky, perhaps waiting for someone who remembers the old rules. An earthwork lies forty metres to the southeast, suggesting the fort was never alone but part of a larger, vanished neighbourhood.
In grassland. Well-preserved circular cashel (D 35m) defined by a drystone wall. There is an entrance (Wth 2.8m) at E. An earthwork (GA070-059----) lies c. 40m 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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