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This long thin hou.se has a rather curious form, flanked in front by 

 circular bastions which commanded the front and sides, and with rooms 

 large enough to still form comfortable chambers in times of comparative 

 peace. At the rere of the house extended a large court -yard, com- 

 manded by the staircase projection or bastion. The outer walls of the 

 yard were also defended by a circular bastion, so that no portion of the 

 outer walls offered a perfect shelter for an attacking force. 



The house consisted of two storeys, and an attic storey, the floors 

 being carried on timber beams, which rested on stone corbels on the 

 lateral walls. Lead was expensive in those days, and iron eaves-gutters 

 were unknown, so that an ingenious construction was adopted to catch 

 the roof-water and to discharge it clear of the building. We illustrate 

 the method as it existed here. (See Plate 19). 



Belfast. 



VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



ZOOI,OGY. 



R. F. SCHARFF: " History of the European Fauna " (1899). 



G. H. Carpenter; "Animals of Ireland " (in "Ireland: Industrial 

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R. J. USSHER and R. Warren : " Birds of Ireland " (1900). 



W. F. Johnson and J. N. Hai<bert : " List of the Beetles of Ireland," 

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W. F. de V. Kane : " Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Ireland " (1902). 



R. F. SCHARFF : "Irish Land and Fresh-water Mollusca," Irish Nat., 

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Botany. 



D.Moore and A. G. More: " Cybele Hibernica," 2nd Edition by 

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D. M'Ardi^E : "A List of Irish Hepaticse," Proc. R. I. Acad., vol. xxiv., 

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D. Moore : "Synopsis of the Mosses of Ireland," Proc. R. I. Acad., (2), 

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C. H. Waddei.1, : " Mosses of Ben Bulben District," /. tJat., vol. i, p. 

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