On the Liscannor side of the Cliffs stands a monument to the man who all but made the cliffs. The Doric, some call it Ionic, which stands beside the roadway near St. Brigid's Well, has become the butt of journalistic jibes and a source of phallic preoccupation to one lady writer; but it has fulfilled its object of commemorating Cornelius O'Brien. His name, if nothing else, must have been noted by thousands of tourists from all over the world. The oft repeated libel that the memorial was erected by O'Brien himself during his own lifetime and paid for with money from his own unfortunate tenants, is completely without foundation. The date on the inscription -1853- can only be explained as a stonecutter's equivalent of a typist's error. The internal evidence alone proves it wrong. O'Brien was an M.P. for twenty years at the time of his death in 1857 and not in 1853 as the inscription states.