Caherhurly ringfort

Caherhurly was a stone ringfort (cathair) of the Ui Urthairle sept, located in the Kilnoe Civil Parish of Tulla Upper barony in eastern County Clare. Documentary evidence from the Mac Namara rental of the latter half of the fourteenth century, provisionally dated to 1380, records Caherhurly among the fortified settlements under Mac Namara control in the region. This dating places the site withi...