Cahiracon
Cathair Dhá Chon
hamlet
Cahercon House
Cahercon House
Cahiracon is located in Ireland
Cahiracon
Cahiracon
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°38′21″N 9°08′57″W / 52.639264°N 9.149236°W / 52.639264; -9.149236
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Clare
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))

Cahiracon[1] (Irish: Cathair Dhá Chon, meaning 'stone ringfort of the two hounds'),[2] sometimes written as Caheracon, is a hamlet and townland in County Clare, Ireland. The hamlet is just off the R473 road and directly across the Shannon Estuary from Foynes in County Limerick. It was home to Saint John Bosco Community College, founded in 2002 as the result of an amalgamation of two older institutions. The college later moved to a new building in Kildysart.

Cahiracon is within the civil parish of Killadysert and barony of Clonderalaw.[2][3]

Cahiracon is also where the religious order, the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, became a reality in 1922.[2][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ordnance Survey Ireland: Online map viewer". Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 Placenames Database of Ireland
  3. ↑ Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland 1845
  4. ↑ Missionary Sisters of St. Columban. About us.


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