Cahercommaun Stone Fort Cahercommaun, Co Clare Phone: 065 7089
999 Cahercommaun is situated on a burren hilltop over looking a
wooded valley. The fort itself is quite worn down by time. The
aerial shots you can see here give the best view of the
structure. At ground level the walls are quite spread out and it
is much more difficult to visualise what the whole structure
must have looked like in it's prime. Burren ringforts such as
this would have been home to a large extended family group after
it's excavation in the 1930's the archaeologists concluded that
Cahercommaun would have been home to and extended family of at
least 40 people. These archaeologists also excavated other sites
in the Burren area. The economy of these family groups was based
largely on argriculture. It is likely that ringforts were at the
centre of what would now days be quite large farms. Trade would
have been quite limited at the time so it is likely that these
family goups were largely self sufficient. Among the artifacts
discovered du