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the bank were actually cut away inside the north end ; but, as seen from the 

 land, the damage is not apparent. 



The earthwork is convex to the land, and is still 56 feet, once over 70 feet, 

 long ; the injured part is still 8 feet to 10 feet high and 12 feet thick. The 

 mound is of two periods, marked by a dark curved layer 5 feet to 6 feet higher 

 than the garth. The inner face, even where not cut, is very steep, sloping so 

 much as 1 in 1 where not nearly perpendicular. 1 It rises 17 feet in 14 feet 

 inside and 16 feet in 12 feet outside. The top was 12 feet and is now 7 feet 

 wide, 5 feet having been dug away. There are heaps of very old limpet shells 

 in the black layer. The garth is unfenced to the sides, and has no hut sites. 

 The fosse is much filled, being only 3 feet to 4 feet below the garth, but 

 11 feet below the field it is 18 feet wide in the bottom and 46 feet at the field. 

 Mr. Ussher, in my former note, gives the length from the inner summit to the 

 field as 51 feet ; there is no outer ring. 



Opposite to the next headland, to the north, is a fine dolmen 

 unmarked on the old maps. I presume it is the " Tigh Caille Beam," or 



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Fig. 1. — " Calliagh Beire's House," Ballinamona. 



Calliagh Beirre's House, of Father Power's list. 2 Mr. Ussher first pointed it 

 out to the surveyors, and got it marked on the new maps. As an undescribed 



1 These fine steep mounds and deep rings are common south of the Shannon, even in 

 small forts like Ballinamona. Fine specimens are found at Portadoon (in Scobaun), the 

 back of whose wall has two stone-faced banquettes ; Dunsorske ; Doona (at Dunbeacon), 

 and Dunkelly (near Dunmanus) in Co. Cork ; Lissadocneen (at Beal), Faillnamna (at 

 Ventry), and the Stack Fort (near Ballybunnian), Co. Kerry ; and (besides Ballinamona), 

 Coolum, and Rathmoylan. No such high mounds occur in the lesser forts of Co. Clare 

 or Co. Mayo. 



2 " Place Names," p. 64. " Tigh caille Beara, an unmarked cromlech, standing close 

 to the edge of the cliff." 



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