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Portadooneex (0. S. 1.36).- — On the low shore, mainly consisting of grassy 

 drift banks on low rocks, to the west of Courtrnacsherry Bay, is another plat- 

 form-fort. The cove beside it was named Portadooneen. The little headland 

 is over 60 feet high ; across the neck rims a deep curved fosse ; no outer 

 fence remains ; and the fosse was evidently a natural hollow cut into shape, 

 and 10 feet deep. It is 6 feet wide below and 27 feet at the field; the inner 

 ring rises 17 feet to 21 feet above it. The platform was fenced ; the part 

 above the fosse is 9 feet thick ; but the curve of stones shown in the 1842 

 map has been all removed. The platform measures 69 feet in each direction, 

 being nearly circular. 1 



Ballytrasna 3 (0. S. 89). — In Imokilly, not far to the east of Dooneenma- 

 cotter, already described, is a smaller spur-fort of similar type to the last. 

 It, too, was a long drift-spur between two streams ; the eastern and larger 

 had cut a deep channel, which was utilized as a road for bringing up seaweed, 

 the low neck -hollow being cut through for over 6 feet deep, and the stream 

 diverted through the gap. The neck was only 12 feet wide, and the tower-like 

 platform of hard earth rose 10 or 12 feet above it, with almost perpendicular 

 sides, revetted with good masonry of small flags, three to five courses alone 

 remaining to the north, and six to ten or twelve to the south-west, about 

 3 feet high, backed by a mound about 6 feet thick, hardly rising 2 feet above 

 the earth. The whole was about 35 feet wide and 50 feet long. It is not 

 marked as an antiquity on either the old or new maps. 



Kinuke, Big Doon, and Little Doon (O. S. 113). — A bold peninsula in 

 Kinure lies beside Oyster Haven, perhaps the " Eastern Haven," 3 in contrast 

 with Edelfiord or Kinsale Harbour, and possibly the " Godelfiord " Harbour, 

 between Kinsale and Cork Harbour, in the early portolan maps. Two natural 

 spurs steeply slope to the sea near each other on the south and east faces of 



1 While this survey is in press, I find an interesting recent note (with two good illus- 

 trations) on this fort by Mr. James Buckley in the Cork Hist, and Arch. Journal, 

 vol. xix, ser. ii, p. 126. 



2 Plea Roll No. 117, an. xi Edw. II, m 86, dorso, cites a charter of John fitzRobert 

 le Poer to Eva la Poer, granting lands at Balytarsne, Seskynmore, Seskinfola, and 

 Lysfolan. Year of "reign of King Edward, son of King Edward," obliterated, but 

 evidently (1307-1317). It may refer to Ballytrasna, but is between names in Co. 

 Waterford. The names of Galf le Poer and a place called Grenandownkenry also occur. 



3 If so, the Norse names in the maritime counties of southern Ireland may be listed as 

 Laxweir and forgotten names of farms round Limerick city, Mikells-Tworedelb, and Twore- 

 dells Bog, 1652, Inis Uibhthonn ('!), Smerwick, Oldernaze or Olderness, Edelfiord or 

 Endelford, Oyster Haven, Godelford, Helvick, Crook, Waterford, (Reginald's Tower ?), 

 Carnsore Point, Grenore, Tuskar Skerry, Wexford, Cahore, Wicklow (Wykinglo), 

 Dalkey, Ostmanstown, Leixlip, Howth, Nose of Howth, Ireland's Eye, Lambay, Skerries, 

 Holmpatrick, and other names now lost at Dublin, such as Thingmote, Langstein, 

 Ostmanstown bridge, quarry, and green. 



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