78 HISTORY OF 



met with, when ploughing fields in that neighhour- 

 hood, and tradition also records that the enemy, 

 by discovering these pipes, at one time forced the 

 garrison to surrender ; this reservoir has two 

 apertures on the south side by which the water 

 was admitted, and opposite, there is now to be 

 seen a stone pipe which conveyed the water into 

 the moat, when it rose too high. The entrance 

 into the inner court is by a passage through a 

 strong wall, ten feet and a half in thickness, which 

 on the out-side has a sentinel's lodge, who could 

 see through a loop hole every one coming from 

 the chief entrance. On the right in this court is 

 one of the state rooms, twenty nine feet by twenty 

 two ; a beautiful arch which supported the roof 

 remains perfect, a second has long ago been des- 

 troyed : the windows look into the court. Between 

 this room and twr y hreiiin, or the king's tower, 

 was the king's chamber, which communicated with 

 that of the queen on the opposite side ; the north 

 tower is called twry vrenines, the queen's tower; 

 and the room on the first story contains a recess 

 taken out of the wall, which is the only place with 

 any appearance of ornament in the castle ; it is 

 formed by seven pointed and groined arches unit- 

 ing with each other at the roof, and under them 



