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need only give this place under the name of Dunbogey— Dwnbwoeg, 1601, 1 

 Downboeggye, 1616; this last deed cites an old rental of William Lord Barry, 

 about 1461, calling it Dunboge. William fitzHenry Barry oge, of Bincorran, 

 held Dunboige, Noghivale, and Le Beny (Beanies). Bhilip was aged fourteen 

 when he succeeded. In 1637 he states that he derived chief imposts from 

 Downeboggye and other lands. 3 It is Dunboige in the Inquisition of March, 

 1624, and in August, 1642, when its owners, Bhilip and John Barry, were 

 outlawed at Kinsale. 



The ruin of its old owners is told with grim formality in a Cromwellian 

 Inquisition. 3 " Sep 29, 1657, John and David Barry, gents, late of Dunbogie, 

 Irish Bapists, on 23rd Oct 1641 & long before & since held Kileagh, Downe- 

 bogie (30 Irish acres) and Ballinranglannie. They entered into rebellion 

 against the King and thereby [oh ! the irony !] his Highness Oliver Lord 

 Protector of the Commonwealth by way of forfeiture was lawfully invested 

 upon the attainder of said John & David Barrie." So he assigned the lands 

 to the disbanded soldiers of Major George Waters for arrears. Henry Coolishie 

 held it after the war; and on the Bestoration got a confirmation in 1667 of 

 63 acres in Dunboige. Another civil war and confiscation followed in 1688, 

 and in 1703 John Hodder purchased part of Dunbogy in Kinalea from the 

 Chichester House Commissioners. 4 



Lewis says that the castle was levelled in the late war (about 1810), being 

 used as material for the signal tower. Accordingly scarcely anything remains 

 of the castle except a straight fosse cut in the rock ; and about IS feet wide, 

 5 feet to 6 feet deep, and 54 feet long. Bising from the rock-cutting was a 

 peel-tower ; only a few courses of good slab masonry on the rock and a 

 shapeless heap of grassy debris remain ; beyond the small platform behind it 

 the Head runs out in a roof-like spur with steep-grassed slopes. There is a 

 fine view of the cliffs from Nohoval cove to Flat Head. No forts remain 

 along them. 



Second Class (V). 



The complex defences of which we meet such striking examples as Dunbeg, 

 Dun Eask, and Duncanuig in Co. Kerry, and Kilmore in Achillbeg, Co. Mayo, 

 are conspicuously absent on the south coast of Co. Cork. The only example 

 is in Imokilly barony, not far from Cork Harbour. 



Dunpoer (O.S. 100). — In Lahard townland in Imokilly, a bold, though not 



1 Trans., 1601. No. 6539. 



2 Affidavit Southwell mss., " Council Book of Kinsale," p. xxxviii. 



3 Exchr., No. 4. Cromwell. 



4 Roll, xix Car. II, pars 2, dorso, No. 32, and Roll, ii Anne, pars 8, dorso. 



