What is recorded here

Cahermacun holds a nineteen-metre stone ring on a high ridge, overlooking a multiperiod field system and another cashel a hundred metres away. Large stones stand on end along one side while earth and stone form the rest, suggesting humans shaped the place before fairy tales claimed it. The boundary wall cutting through the east half reminds us that living fields and old belief still share the same ground.

On a high prominent location with views from SSE to WNW, within a multiperiod field system( CL005-115001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1916 eds of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the RMP (1996). A moderately well to poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 19m) defined from SSE to WSW by a double wall (ext. H 0.7-1m; int. H 0.45m; T c. 2.5m) built of large stones set on their ends, from WNW to NNE by a bank of stone and earth (W 3.6m; H 0.7m) and from NNE to SE by slight foundations (0.2-0.4m wide). A later wall is built on the outer face from NNE to SE and a boundary wall runs N-S through the E half. Another cashel (CL005-074----) lies c. 100m to the NNW. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 5 December 2022

A fairy fort or stone ringfort in Cahermacun is a circular earthen or stone enclosure, typical of early-medieval Ireland, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries. Local folklore may associate it with supernatural beings, as suggested by the name "fairy fort," though specific traditions are not recorded.

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