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steps of a stile up which the rampart could be scaled. The wall here is 

 16 feet high, or 25 feet, including the rocky base, which gets bolder and 

 more marked eastward. A small turret with two compartments — one a 

 garderobe — projects at 152 feet. In the sloped wall beside it is a loop of 

 two stones; the turret measures 12 feet 6 inches deep and 9 feet wide. At 

 172 feet 6 inches the wall again bends eastward for 63 feet, then sets back 

 for 28 feet, and turning abruptly runs down to the cove, being over 266 feet to 

 the turn, and 327 feet in all. Near the same point a branch wall curves 

 along the top of the slope to another turret with two garderobes, 63 feet 

 distant at the south-east angle of the rock-platform ; the building is 18 feet 

 by 25 feet. 



The peel-tower or keep is 30 feet by 16 feet ; has a projecting turret, 

 9 by 18 feet to the south-east; only the lower story remains under a corbelled 

 vault. The top is reached as an outlook by a late flight of steps to the east. 

 There is a broken spiral stair at the north-east corner ; it has no newel ; 10 

 steps remain. The wall is 4 feet 6 inches thick ; the under room 16 feet 

 7 inches, divided by an arch, 6 feet wide between the piers, with recesses in 

 each wall, 2 feet 6 inches deep. The ambreys and lights are of the plainest 

 description. The attic under the vault had a door and passage leading to 

 another reach of spiral stair in the north-west angle. No one remembers any 

 remains of the upper story. 1 



From the lighthouse at the end of Galley Head is a noble view ; over the 

 Seven Heads the Old Head of Kinsale is just visible eastward, while west- 

 ward the view sweeps round Eoss Carbery, past Glandore and Castlehaven to 

 Scullane, beyond which Clear Island and the Fastnets end the outlook. 



Dunworley (0. S. 144). — The name is said to be Dun mhuirgill, I know 

 not on what early authority, for in the record of the destruction (of the fort ?) 

 by Finghin mac Carthaigh in 1260, it is called Dun Urlaing? Smith, of 

 course, attributes it to the Cowhigs. In 1324 there appears in a serjeantry 

 case in the Plea Kolls a place called Wyrmeley in Ocarbry, 3 which may be 

 Dunworley in the Norman form. In later days it was held by the Barrys. 

 Eedmond, son of James Barry, held Downowrligg in 1573 ; and his son John 

 in 1602 was pardoned, I presume, for some act during the rising of the 

 Sugan Earl and the Spanish invasion. 4 Bedmond died August 3, 1604, 

 possessed of Dunorling or Dunuorling (which confirms the 1260 form of the 

 name). John, who was then aged twenty-four, eventually enfeoffed it to Bobert 



1 Plan, Plate XI. 2 Dublin Annals of Inisfallen, T.C.D. 



3 Plea Roll, No. 146, ann. xvii Ed. II, ra. 8. I am not sure that this is not a slip for 

 "Tymolag, : ' Timoleague. 

 4 Fiants 2249 and 6701. 



