What is recorded here

Cahernatinna, the fort of the fire, still holds its shape on a narrow Clare terrace where modern walls hide ancient stones. O’Donovan found it in great delapidation in 1916, yet the name preserved the memory of heat and transformation. The land may have swallowed the truth of its making, but the fire lived on in the words people spoke when pointing at the ruin.

On a narrow, level terrace of partially improved pasture at E foot of a low rise, in a large multiperiod field system (CL005-014001-). Hachured as a circular enclosure and named ‘Cahernatinna’ on the 1842 OS 6-inch map and indicated as a rectangular enclosure on the 1916 ed. O’Donovan (Comber 1997, 73) recorded its name as ‘Caher-na-Teinné’ which he translated as the fort of the fire and described it as a caher ‘in a state of great delapidation’. Westropp (1901, 15) did not consider it an antiquity and puzzled over how it got its name. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A subrectangular enclosure (30m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a modern stone wall (Wth 0.5-0.7m; H 1.2-1.4m). Horizontal blocks at the base of the wall at NE and midway along the N and E sides may be the remnants of a cashel wall. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 11 October 2022

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