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County, which imparts its generic name to the townland Cara-caslol: 

 another in the County Kerry, is called the Staigue fort, of which Mr. 

 Leslie Foster has presented a model to the Dublin Society, and a very 

 exact description may be seen in the Dublin Philosophical Journal. 



It is worthy of notice, that Camden, while in confirmation of a 

 former proposition laid down in this work, he mentions several monu- 

 ments in Anglesea, referrible to Druid worship, as named from thelrish, 

 also notices smaller specimens of the casiols, as then extant in that 

 island, adding, that they were denominated " Irish cots" and "Irish 

 stones," and even records that traditions in Anglesea go the length of 

 proving, that before Christianity the Irish possessed that island.* 

 Few specimens of either the oratories or dwellings that were constructed 

 within the Irish casiols now remain, and these only in the most 

 isolated situations, such as Inismurry, Inisglory, &c., where possibly 

 too, a dearth of timber might have compelled the application of stone, 

 which is the sole material in these exposed islands. 



Touching pasturage and agriculture. Saint Patrick's occupation, 

 while a captive in Ireland, -f- furnishes evidence that the former was 

 carried on to some extent, while Adamnan speaks of Columba " cum 

 in Scotia versaretur," as obtaining by his intercession and prayers 

 such rains as caused a most abundant harvest. J The same work men- 

 tions§ "^orrfei modii," ^* arando," "^ sefninando," '^ messem" ^^ hor- 

 reum," &c. Granges, of the nature of farm yards, were also anciently 

 appendant to monasteries,!! and it would appear from the frequent 

 occurrence of the name in Ireland, where it always evidences ancient 

 abbey land, that the necessity of their use was there felt and provided 



* Camden, vol. 2. p. 568. ■ f See ante, p. 182. 



X " Valde laetas eodem anno segetes." — Vita Columb. lib. 2. c. 44. 

 § Vita Columb. lib. 2. c. 3, and lib. 3. c. 23. ■ .i ik>* 



II Spelman's Glossary, tit " Grangia." 



