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defaced and partly filled the fosse. They then made a mound with a 

 facing of well-built flagstones, 6 inches to 10 inches thick, and often 2 feet 

 square. The facing was 3 feet thick ; the whole 8 to 10 feet thick ; it rises 

 6 to 7 feet over the hollow, and 3 feet over the garth. 1 The interior was 

 so deep in bracken that I could not distinguish any fences or house-sites 

 there. The fort under the name of Tighykehernagh (kern's house) is 

 mentioned by C. Fitzgerald in 1858 as the residence of a giant Eanageana 

 or Geany, from whom Ballygeany townland across the stream was named. 

 The Gevenys, from whom Ballygeany is named, were vassals of the Cathedral 

 of Cloyne : " Gevenys sunt puri homines Sci Colmani et pertinent ad 

 eeclesiam," says the Pipe Boll of Cloyne in the fourteenth century. As to 

 the family from which the fort and townland are named, I find one named 

 Mac Odris living in the district in the fourteenth century, and given in the 

 Pipe Boll of Cloyne. In an undated deed, probably of the early thirteenth 

 century, John Macodris holds Balymacbuoghan, and Henry and Patrick 

 Geveney certain messuages, I presume at Cloyne. In 1348 an Inquisition 

 as to the tenants of John Karny in Cloyne was found by a jury including 

 Thomas Macodrys. Ones of 1354 and 1356 name Maurice Macodris. Of the 

 burgesses of Cloyne, in 1402, in the time of Bishop Gerald, 2 Maurice 



Geveny is named. 5 The family of Macotter or Cotter seems to be 

 Nbrnianized-Hibernicized Danes. 



"We now note the straight walled fortifications ; but it is better to reserve 

 those where later castles and walls form the bulk of the existing fortification, 

 aud treat of them separately at the end of the primitive forts, even where 

 older traces unmistakably occur. 



Coosdeargadooxa, Toe Head (O.S. 150). — In Scullane townland, we 

 fiud another walled headland. This fortress about twelve years ago (as 



1 am told by Mr. Batrick Maguire, who lives at the old signal-tower above 

 it) was in fair preservation. It has now been almost entirely levelled by 

 two neighbouring farmers, for hardly necessary fences, with the callous 

 disregard for their country"s past increasingly characteristic of their class. 

 The bold headland of Scullane, with its fine outlook past Castlehaven to 

 the Squince, and on to Dundeady and Galley Head, forms a rugged set of 

 knolls, with steep slopes thick in furze and heather, down to low cliffs and 

 the stack of Scullane plumed with sea-fowl. Scullane is probably the 

 " Seetan " (Scelan ?) of the Upsal map, 1450. It had a straight, massive wall 

 of large, thin slabs of dry stone, about 6 feet high; this is 161 feet to 



1 Plan, Plate X. - Gerald Canton, an Augustinian, 1394-1407. 



3 Pipe Roll of Cloyne, ed. R. Caulfield, pp. 2, 7, 8, 34, 45, and 56. 



