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Lisnaleagaun, Lugalassa, and Magh Adhair), called Lisnagree (Lios na 

 ngroidh, " of the cattle "). The valley, before the present road was made, was 

 a most secluded spot ; the bottom was once a lake, which, as the stream-bed 

 deepened, left marshy fields behind ; into these a long drift-ridge ran out. 

 As at Aharinagh, 'the fort-makers cut a deep crescent fosse through the end 

 of the spur, and shaped up a mound — doubtless very necessary when the valley 

 got flooded at rainy seasons. The occupants on later occasions continued to 

 raise it ; the last addition was never finished. Doubtless the fort was at first 

 an islet (as Magh Adhair may well have been, and as The Earl's House 

 certainly was down to the time when the river was deepened) ; but Lis- 

 naleagaun and Lugalassa always stood on dry fields — the latter on the top of 

 a ridge. The fosse is from 2 feet to 6 feet above the level of the adjacent 

 field, with an outer ring, 3 feet to 5 feet high, running into the ridge at the 

 cutting, and is 10 feet wide. The inner mound is of three periods. The first 

 platform was level with the summit of the ridge ; then 4 feet to 6 feet of 

 earth was added, and lastly, a third layer, over 3 feet high, left incomplete 

 for about 9 feet from the southern edge in a straight line. The higher part 

 is 96 feet across in the middle, north and south, or 105 feet in all, and about 

 the same east and west ; it is 8 feet to 10 feet above the fosse, and 14 feet to 

 16 feet above the marsh to the north ; large hawthorns to the west and south 

 add deceptively to its height and size. 1 I heard at Formoyle, but from a 

 very doubtful source, that the fort was called from the cattle which King 

 Brian Bora took from the Danes and kept at it. Brian certainly hid in the 

 hills of Ui mBloid ; and had my informant been certainly reliable, the legend 

 would be of much interest. Being suspicious, I put other questions, which 

 were certainly answered with intention to please me, but the answers to 

 which were incorrect. The fort is in the territory of the O'Kennedys. 



Killadeery-o'bkien (0. S. 44). — The fort is one of a group of five 

 between the old hill road and Doon Lake on the road between Kilseily church 

 and holy well and Bealkelly Castle, below " old Grama's " dolmen, and 

 exactly 1000 yards west from the church. It measures 160 feet over all ; 

 the outer ring has been levelled into the fosse to the north-east ; the trench 

 is 15 feet wide and usually about 4 feet deep, being still wet. The inner 

 ring is 6 feet to 8 feet high outside and 3 feet inside ; it is 12 feet thick. 

 The garth is from 99 feet to 102 feet across. In the fort is a sandstone block 

 with two late-looking irregular rings scribed on it. 



1 For plan see Plate IV. The section is sketched. 



