²⁸Photographs of the author made during his first visit to Caherconree (1978) and his most recent (2024) may be seen here.

In his moving tribute to archaeologist Frank Mitchell, Michael Ryan describes how Mitchell “…tried three times to climb up to [Caherconree] and three times he was foiled by the Kerry mist. He wrote that perhaps he should have stayed around until the fog cleared and tried again, but he added that 'a capacity to sit around is just not part of my nature.’”