What is recorded here

Caherabane is a circular fairy fort on a SW-facing Galway slope, its collapsed drystone wall still marking a fifty-metre boundary. The fort contains a hidden chamber and opens at NE and SW, as if inviting entry rather than resisting it. People may have lived inside, feared inside, or simply passed around its rim. The stones remain steady while the meaning shifts, which is the true strangeness of a cashel.

On a SW-facing slope in grassland. Circular cashel (D 50m), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed drystone wall. Gaps at NE and SW appear modern. Within the interior was a CBG (GA055-057001-) 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

Caherabane, Mountross is a circular early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries, characterized by a collapsed drystone wall and a central circular building (CBG). While no specific folklore is recorded for this site, like many such forts in Ireland, it may have later been associated with local fairy or other supernatural traditions.

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