96 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



the remains of a large cemetery were found not long before 1750, 1 and 

 Carrigullihy was held in 1641-1651 by Donagh O'Donovane alias Leagh. 2 



Dunnycove or Dunnycoohig (0. S. 144). — A narrow, sloping spur, above 

 a beautiful strand and row of little bays, falls precipitously to a lower rock- 

 platform, to the south of which runs a dock-like creek, with parallel sides. 

 Down the upper slope the fort-builders took advantage of a knoll of rock and a 

 slight platform to make a small refuge. They dug a curved fosse, 12 feet 

 wide, cut in the rock, and 6 feet deep to the south, but almost effaced to the 

 north ; and they also walled in a little platform below the rock. Later builders — 

 probably the Barrys — built a peel-tower on the outcrop ; it is now a heap of 

 debris, sheeted with vetch, save for the north wall, which is 21 feet long and 

 about 20 feet high. There was a turret to the south-west, commanding a 

 small postern, and a breakneck path to the south creek. The lower platform 

 is fenced by a wall 3 feet thick ; it is 55 feet east and west, by 22 feet north 

 and south inside. 



The castle, like the others of the group, is attributed to the O'Cowhigs. 

 The name appears as Dunhugge ; " much was uncultivated, being on the march 

 of the Irish " in 1302 3 ; and Downecowhigge, 1631, in the Inquisition of David 

 Lord Barry, Viscount Buttevant 4 ; Downicar in Hibernia Delineata, 1683, 

 map 21, and Dunny and Dunnycove in subsequent documents. 



Coosewee (0. S. 144). — Over the little " yellow cove " with its remarkable 

 cliffs (rose, salmon-colour, maroon, and yellow) and the strand on which the 

 Dunworley beads continue to be found (after half a century), 5 I found an 

 unmarked fort. The rocks are low with a high cap of yellowish earth 6 ; and 

 the sea has cut a deep cove into the fort headland. The mound is still perfect 

 round its edge, though crumbling away at the cliff. If it had an outer ring, 



1 Smith's "Cork," vol. i, p. 273. When Dean Swift stayed in Myross, June, 1723, 

 he went on boat to Glandore, and recorded his impressions of the coast in a Latin poem, 

 " Carberiae Rupes " still preserved. 



2 Book of Distribution, p. 230. The O'Donovan family abound farther westward. It 

 will be remembered that Domnall mor Ua Briain, the last king of Munster, fatally opened 

 his land to the Normans by a desolating war with MaeCarthaig. All from Luimneach to 

 Corcagh on to Mount Brandon was wasted. The Eoghanacht tribes, Ui Chonaill Gabhra 

 (OTonnell) andUi Donnabhain, fled beyond Mangerton (Ann. Innisfallen, Bodleian Lib.). 

 They spread widely in West Cork ; and in 1280 we find eighteen O'Dofnohans or 

 O'Donovehans paying £36 15s. 4d. to the English Government for peace (Pipe Roll, 

 No. 18 of xxvi Ed. I, 1297). 



3 Pipe Roll, Edw. I, No. 21, anno xxx, referring to years xxvii-xxxii. 



4 Inquis. Chancery, No. 66, Car. I. 



5 Journal R. Soc. Antt. Ir., vol. v, consec, pp. 59, 61 ; also Dr. Neligan's paper, 

 " Cork Cuvierian Society," 1857. They are comparatively recent, and have given rise 

 to a wild crop of conjecture and legend. 



For the ochres of Southern Cork, see Smith, vol. ii, pp. 368-9. 



