What is recorded here
Cahergortmore is a ruined oval cashel in County Galway, its drystone wall vanished at the north but still stretching thirty-one metres east to west beside a larger ringfort. The gap suggests the earth swallowed the boundary or the fairies withdrew before dawn, leaving behind a broken circle instead of a complete trap. Someone may have stood inside that missing arc, watching the sky tilt and forgetting which world they belonged to.
Some 30m SE of a ringfort (GA042-189001-). Poorly preserved oval cashel (E-W 31m, N-S 26.4m) defined by a drystone wall, no visible surface trace of which survives at N.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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