CHAP. VIIT.] 



LOG HOUSES IN IRELAND. 



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Log Houses in Ireland. 



In the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy a model is 

 preserved of a log hut, discovered in 1833 in Drumkelin 



Side Elevation. 



FIG. 97. Log House, Drumkelin Bog, Donegal. 



bog, Inver (Donegal), 1 made of rough logs and planks of 



Front Elevation. 

 -Roof 



Floor. 



Ground Floor. 





Boy. 

 FIG. 98. Log House, Drumkelin Bog, Donegal. 



oak timber (Figs. 97, 98), split with "wedges," twelve feet 

 square and nine feet high. " The framework was com- 



i Captain Muclge, Arch&oloyia, xxvi. p. 361, pi. 47. 



