Ringfort - cashel

The National Monuments Service's description

In gently undulating farmland. Named 'Caher or Circle of Stones' on the OS Fair Plan. When initially visited by the Survey in 1983, this poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 52.5m) was defined by a drystone wall from N through E to SW and elsewhere by a grassed-over stony bank. A field boundary, with a modern trackway on its E side, cut through the monument from N to S. There was an entrance gap (Wth 2.7m) at E. A subrectangular area defined by grassed-over collapse in the SE quadrant may have been one of two ‘enclosures’ noted by McCaffrey (1952, 111, no. 6) in each half of the interior. Some
earthworks were also noted in the field immediately to the SE. However, as a result of field clearance, most of the cashel wall, apart from a section between ENE to ESE (L 15m), and
the earthworks have been levelled.

Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG

Date of upload: 20 January 2017

References

McCaffrey, P. 1952 A contribution to the archaeology of the barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway.