Cahermore, Ballyallaban. Information sign outside Cahermore ringfort. Sign reads: 'This caher (stone fort), was built sometime in the early Medieval period (600 to 1170 AD) as the defended farmstead of a wealthy Burren landowner. The fort has two walls. The strong inner wall encloses a roughly circular area and had a lintelled gateway with small rooms built into its side walls. This gateway, which was built using mortar, is not original and may have been built in the 15th century to replace a simpler entrance. Several rectangular buildings are built against the inside wall of the fort. The outer stone-walled enclosure was subdivided by thin walls which may have formed animal stockades. Excavators of a similar outer enclosure at Cahercommaun, also in the Burren, found the bones of large numbers of cattle. Cahermore - from An Chathair Mhór (the Big Stone Fort).'
