What is recorded here
Cahermacrea stands in ruins across County Clare, stripped of its living walls but still marked on the land. The castle may have housed a family, guarded a road or simply watched the weather pass. Its absence is not emptiness; it is a shape waiting for memory to return.
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen.
Date of upload: 8 December 2014
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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