Caheranardurrish

Caheranardurrish ( Irish : Cathair an Árd dorais - fort with the high door) is a dun on a hill above Glensleade in the Burren in County Clare in Ireland .

The dun is slightly oval with an inner diameter of about 33 by 35 meters. The wall is about 2.3 m thick and 1.5 to 2.4 m high. The name comes from the entrance in the southeast. It has two stacked posts 1.4 and 1.3 m wide and 1.6 m high. The gate has three lintels , the middle one has slipped and the outer 2.4 long and between 0.45 and 0.55 m thick stones lie on the wide post masonry. The name is either an archaic sarcasm or such high gates were rare in the Burren.

In the middle of the dun there used to be a pile of stones from a collapsed clochan . A small stone box about 2.7 m long and 0.9 m wide with a plate partition in the middle has been preserved. This is one of those structures that can be found in several Irish duns. The wall was damaged by treasure hunters or undermined by rabbits. The right post of the gate was also affected.

literature

• George Cunningham: Burren Journey . New edition. Burren Research Press, Ballyvaughan 1993. ISBN 0-950-30803-X .

Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '38.2 "  N , 9 ° 8' 36.7"  W.