112 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Townsend and Lewis, 1815 and 1837, and George V. Du Noyer sketched it 

 in 1853. 1 



It belongs to the class " g " of cliff- forts in the above table, being a shoi'e- 

 rock, and probably only reached by a plank even when used as a dun in its 

 fort-days; the earthen mound running partly along the landward side of 

 the rock alone remains in places. The tower must have been on a projection 

 approaching the main cliff near enough to allow the use of a drawbridge, as 

 at Liekbevune and Ballingarry in Kerry, the castle on Dorseys, and 

 Dunauore on Clear Island. The rock eventually collapsed, bringing down 

 more than half of the tower. The fragment is about 21 feet long, with 

 walls 4 to 5 feet thick. There are two floors under a pointed vault, the 

 lower with a neat pointed south doorway in the south-east corner leading 

 to the island. Above the vault are two more stories under the roof; the 

 lower has a plain lintelled south window and splay, and part of another 

 facing the east; the upper has a defaced light to the south. A heavy 

 corbelling widened the wall at the roof ; the battlements are very thin. 

 Though the masonry is externally good, round shore-stones are worked 

 into the filling ; those in Browne's Castle, Kerry, helped its collapse, 

 but the mortar seems stronger at Downeen. A little stream hidden in 

 cress and loosestrife runs down to the opposite cliff. The foundations of 

 an oblong building about 45 feet long adjoin the tower to the south- 

 west. 



Dundeaby, Galley Head (O.S. 144). — The last and largest of the Galley 

 Head group of castles lies not far south from Donoure. It is said to have 

 been an O'Cowhig castle, but all the buildings are evidently long posterior 

 to the Barry occupation of the district. The Dublin Annals of Inisfallen 

 say that the castles of Dundeady and Timoleague were founded by Nicholas 

 Barry in 1215 ; but no building, or even earthwork, remains that can be 

 attributed to that period. The Annals under 1260 also tell us that Dundeide, 

 Dun Urlaing, Cuan dor (Glandore), and other castles were destroyed by 

 Finghin Beanna Boin, son of Domhnall Got Mac Carthaigh. 2 Philip de 

 Barri (brother of Giraldus Cambrensis), along with his brother-in-law Robert 

 Fitz Stephen, had got in 1179 large grants of land. Three cantreds in 

 Corcaia, namely, Olethan (Barrymore), Muschere (Muskerry), and Dunegan 

 (Dunowen), were confirmed to William, son of Philip, by King John, Nov. 8th, 



1 R.S.A.I. Lib. Sketches, vol. i, p. 385. See Rev. Horatio Townsend, "Statistical 

 Survey of Cork," vol. i, p. 156 ; and Lewis under " Rosscarbery." 



2 O'Donovan, "Miscellany of the Celtic Society," p. 385; and note, Annals Four 

 Masters (1215), pp. 187-8. 



