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A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT of the FORT of 

 ARDNORCHER or HORSELEAP, near KILBEGGAN, 

 in the County 0/ WESTMEATH, IRELAND; -with Con- 

 jeBures concerning its Ufe, and the Time of its EreBion. By 

 Mr. JOHN BROWNRIGG. In a Letter to JOSEPH 

 C. WALKER, Efq; Secretary to the Committee of Antiquities. 



SIR, 



A S you were fo kind as to approve of my antiquarian attempts, Read Dec. 

 I am induced to fend you the following obfervations on the lort ' '^ 

 of Horfeleap, with a view and plan of the fort. 



The very ancient fort of Ardnorcher has been for fome cen- 

 turies paft vulgarly called the fort of Horfeleap, on account of 

 a moft extraordinary leap which is faid to have been formerly 

 made into it over the drawbridge, by an Englilh knight in efcaping, 

 from a clofe purfuit. 



Sl^;. 



