Cahercommaun

Cahercommaun (Irish Cathair Chomáin " comans City ") is a triple umwalltes Inland Promontory Fort in County Clare in Ireland. Caher is the anglicized form of the Irish word " cathair " (which in some parts of the island or Dun Stone Fort means ).

The stone fort is situated in the east of the Burren on the edge of a steep escarpment. It has as Dun Aenghus on the Aran Island of Inishmore three half concentric rings of walls. The innermost, which is also the strongest ( from 16,500 tons of stones erected ), once forms a D-shaped enclosure. The two outer form semi-circles with a radius of about 50 m which are interconnected by four radial walls. The innermost, in parts even up to 3.5 m towering wall contains three rooms.

The archaeological excavations of 1934 revealed that the circular area about a dozen stone buildings enclosed that arose at different times and two of which have basements. Since the excavation has vegetation, in this completely remote region, many foundations covered. About the history of the fort is not known. A silver brooch that was found in one of the basement and now in the National Museum of Ireland located in Dublin, shows that the basement existed AD before the 9th century. Cahercommaun is next Caherconree in County Kerry, the prominent among Irish Inland Promontory fort

Not far away lies with Cashlaun Gar a smaller and irregular-shaped stone fort. Within the complex are the foundations of four beehive huts.

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