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nearly all removed. The outer ring is 5 feet high, 6 feet thick on top, and 12 

 feet at the field. The fosse is. wet, 8 feet deep, 9 feet wide below, and 19 

 feet at the field-level. The inner ring is 10 feet thick and high over the 

 fosse, 3 feet over the garth, which is 72 feet across. The whole is 155 feet 

 over all. 



Cauher. — At the foot of the hill, near the dolmens, and to the north-east 

 of them, is a levelled ring known as " the Cauher " ; it is 72 feet across inside 

 (like Naugh ton's Fort), with a wall, 10 feet to 15 feet thick ; foundation-blocks 

 and some heaps of small filling remaining. Inside is a house-enclosure and a 

 row of large set blocks. 



Knocksallaghbeg. — West from Naughton's Fort, towards Ballyvergin, 

 is " MacInerney's Fort." It stands on another low hill (fourteen of such 

 can be seen from Mangan's Fort), and has an outer ring, 8 feet thick and 4 feet 

 high, its southern half levelled. The fosse is 10 feet wide, and is nearly filled 

 in parts. The inner fort is 5 feet to 6 feet high to the north, and 9 feet to 

 the west. The ring is 9 feet thick, and the stone facing usually remains. 

 The garth is 4 feet higher than the field, and is 81 feet to 84 feet across, or 

 138 feet over all. Inside are two mounds and some large blocks. 



Knocksallaghmore. — " Cloon's Fort " lies on a low ridge near the old 

 road to Clooney. It is one of the best examples of the so-called " square " 

 fort in eastern Clare. The outer mound is 12 feet thick, and usually levelled ; 

 the fosse is 7 feet to 11 feet wide below, and 4 feet to 7 feet deep. The sides 

 are slightly bowed, and measure inside, the north, 75 feet; south, 60 feet; 

 east, 72 feet; and west, 84 feet; or 102 feet and 111 feet diagonally. The 

 inner face is lined with large stones ; some slabs, 3 feet wide and 4 feet high 

 occur chiefly at the corners. The rampart is 5 feet high inside, and 10 to 12 

 feet outside; it is 12 feet thick. 1 The fort has been often used from oldest 

 memory to the present time for public meetings. 



Maghera. — " Connor's Fort " lies near Aughnadina Bridge, on a pleasant, 

 low knoll above a stream, shaded by a mountain ash and hawthorn. It is a 

 ring- wall. 5 or 6 feet thick, of large ^blocks, 75 feet across the garth, and is 

 evidently not very ancient. Near it is a curious limestone platform, 12 feet 

 high, full of little natural arches, caves, and fox-earths, but the walls on it are 

 rebuilt or modern. 



Carrahax Caher. — I was told by a very old man, in 1895, that when he 

 was a child the old people said the Caher was " a very famous place, and told 

 all sorts of things about it," which he had forgotten. Much of the stonework 

 was removed in about 1867. The maps of 1655 and 1683 mark "Caher- 

 giridan " about this place. The name occurs from Elizabethan times ; but I 



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