What is recorded here

Caherbughy is a broken circular enclosure on a Galway hill, its earth bank faded so much that a later field wall now completes part of the circle. Inside stands a small rectangular earthen shape, perhaps a house used when the wider ring was still lived in. The missing southern arc does not read as failure; it reads as time taking back what it can.

On the summit of a low hill. Very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (E-W 47m, N-S 43m) defined by traces of a low bank from NNE to ESE, and from SW to NW. No visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives from ESE to SW, and a field wall forms the enclosing element from WNW to N. There is a rectangular structure defined by a low earthen bank in NE quadrant of interior. Possibly an associated house. A ringfort (GA056-117----) lies c. 180m to SW. 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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