Ringfort (Cashel), Clogharoasty, Co. Galway

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Ringfort (Cashel), Clogharoasty, Co. Galway

In the townland of Clogharoasty in County Galway there sits a cashel, a type of ringfort defined by its dry-stone circular enclosure rather than the earthen banks more commonly associated with early medieval settlement.

These structures were built across Ireland roughly between the fifth and twelfth centuries, serving as farmsteads and status markers for the families who inhabited them. The cashel form tends to cluster in areas where stone lay ready to hand, and Connacht has its share. What makes this particular example quietly notable is simply how little is formally recorded about it in accessible sources, leaving it as one of those monuments that exists on maps and in official counts but remains, in practical terms, largely undescribed.

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