Cahercommaun
Cahercommaun ( Irish Cathair Chomáin "Cománs Fort") is a triple walled inland Promontory Fort in County Clare in Ireland . Caher is the Anglicized form of the Irish word " cathair " (which in some regions of the island means a dun or stone fort).
The dun lies in the east of the Burren on the edge of a steep edge . Like Dun Aenghus on Inishmore Aran Island, it has three concentric semicircular rings of walls. The innermost, which is also the strongest (built from 16,500 tons of stone), once formed a D-shaped enclosure.
The two outer ones form semicircles with a radius of about 50 m, which are connected to each other by four radial walls. The innermost wall, which in parts towers up to 3.5 m, contains three rooms.
The archaeological excavation of 1934 revealed that the circular area enclosed about a dozen stone buildings that were built at different times, two of which have basements . During these excavations, the Tullycommon bone was also discovered, which has two Ogham inscriptions.
Since the excavation, vegetation has covered many of the foundations in this completely remote region. Nothing is known about the history of the fort. A silver brooch found in one of the two basements and now in the Irish National Museum in Dublin shows that the basement existed before the 9th century AD. Cahercommaun is, along with Caherconree in County Kerry, the most outstanding of the Irish inland promontory forts.
Not far away is Cashlaun Gar, a smaller and irregularly shaped stone fort. The foundations of four beehive huts lie within this facility .
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literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 p. 38
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Coordinates: 53 ° 0 '52.9 " N , 9 ° 4' 14.1" W.