Cahiracon Explained

Cahiracon
Native Name:Irish: Cathair Dhá Chon
Native Name Lang:ga
Settlement Type:hamlet
Pushpin Map:Ireland
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Ireland
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Ireland
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Munster
Subdivision Type3:County
Subdivision Name3:County Clare
Unit Pref:Metric
Population Density Km2:auto
Utc Offset1:+0
Timezone1 Dst:IST (WEST)
Utc Offset1 Dst:-1
Coordinates:52.6393°N -9.1492°W

Cahiracon[1],[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]

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  1. Web site: Ordnance Survey Ireland: Online map viewer . 2010-09-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,522826,655014,4 . 2012-08-29 . dead .
  2. http://www.logainm.ie/7027.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland
  3. http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/cahircon_1845.htm Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland 1845
  4. https://www.columbansisters.org/from-the-beginning/ Missionary Sisters of St. Columban. About us