What is recorded here

Caher Island in County Mayo wears a stone wall on its northwestern cliff, cutting a headland off the rest like an Aran Island fort. Rolleston saw the wall in 1900 but could not tell whether it marked ancient defence or a modern fence, and Westropp later passed the site over entirely. The sea kept that answer hidden, leaving the wall to stand as a threshold between human time and tidal forgetting.

Rolleston (1900, 358-9) noted a fenced headland on the northwestern end of Caher Island. He writes: 'It is possible to trace the remains of a stone wall cutting off this portion of the island, the portion bordered by the sea-cliff, from the rest, in the manner of some of the stone forts on the Aran Islands and elsewhere...' However, he could not make up his mind whether this was an ancient structure or a modern fence. Westropp (1912) mentioned the site but omitted it from his list. This site was not visited. These descriptions are derived from the MA thesis of Markus Casey 1999 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland. A survey of counties Sligo, Mayo, Galway and Clare. Unpublished MA thesis, National University of Ireland, Galway. Date of upload: 5 December 2018

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