What is recorded here

Cahiracon holds a subcircular earthen ringfort on a ridge end, overlooking the Shannon Estuary and Foynes Island. Its low sod-covered bank still marks a narrow interior where people may have watched weather, traffic or danger arrive from the water. The name Fairy fort suggests later locals believed the shape belonged to something unseen, but the earthwork itself remains a human boundary made visible against the sky.

At a spot height (75m OD), on the SW end of prominent ridge (long axis NE-SW), in pasture with excellent views in all directions, particularly across the Shannon Estuary NE-SE including Foynes Island to SE. A subcircular area (31m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) defined by a low sod-covered earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.35m; Wth at top 2m; overall Wth 6.1m) SW-NNE and reduced to scarp (Wth 3.9m; H 0.8m) NNE-SW. A short portion of a fosse (Wth 5.35m; D 0.05m) is visible at N. The interior is grass covered with a very gentle SE-facing slope. The concrete base of trigonometric point is located c. 11m to N and a farm trackway is c. 11m to NW. The following images have been uploaded: CL069-030----_01.jpg From NE. General view of monument. CL069-030----_02.jpg From E. Cross-section view of bank and fosse at N. CL069-030----_03.jpg From SW. Cross-section view of scarp at SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney, Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 9 January 2019

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