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stones, over that 2 feet of dark mould. When the fort was made the black 

 layer was absent, the mounds being thrown up directly over the grey layer. 

 The dark washed sward now covers all the works. 1 



Kjltaerasy (0. S. 25). — There was a Killorzhie in Dessys (Deeies) in 

 1229, 2 which, as Deeies then ran on to Galtiere, may have been this spot, the 

 name of which is derived from a lost church of Cil Fheargusa (Killarrusa, 

 KiUfarrusa). Unless this be so, I have no records earlier than the reign of 

 Charles I, when Xicholas Power of Downehill enfeoffed William Eailebord 

 and Darby TitzConnell with Killarisse and other lands in trust. Kilfarreise or 

 Killarrisse (as we saw) formed part of Dunhill Manor in 1635 3 ; it is marked 

 as Kilfarrissee on Petty's map of 1656, and was confirmed to Sir John Cole, 

 with Garrarusse and Dunbratton, in July, 1663. i 



The Irish name of the fort is forgotten ; the headland is called " the 

 Island" of Kilfarrasy. In the middle of the last century Mr. Eichard Ussher 

 remembers its strong and lofty defensive works which he had often passed 

 through when studying the birds of these cliffs. The works were dug away 

 partly to make fences along the dangerously crumbling precipices, but the 

 traces are well marked and can be planned. 5 They consist of a straight 

 fosse 12 feet wide with a spring and stream in its eastern reach. It is crossed 

 by a gangway 12 feet wide at 51 feet from the western and 75 feet from the 

 eastern cliff, and is about 140 feet long ; no recent rock falls have taken 

 place near the ends. The inner mound is 10 feet to 12 feet wide, and was 

 once 5 feet to 6 feet higher than the fosse into which heaps of it have been 

 thrown in parts ; the fosse was and still is in places) 5 feet deep. On the 

 west cliff, 60 feet south of the mound, is a natural recess, or terrace, fenced 

 along the edge. I saw no hut sites, though a recent fire had cleared the 

 garth. There is a very tine view of the endless reefs and the cliffs on to 

 Islandikane fort and islets. One of the numerous early cooking-places 6 called 

 Fulacht Fiadh, black with burned stones and charcoal, lies on the stream at 

 the eastern limit of the townland. 



Westtov.->\ Great Inland, Pokt (0. S. 26).— This is by some mistake 

 while in Press called Woodtovsn in my former paper, and its length (which 



1 See Section. Plate XXI. Xo. 8. 

 al. Documents Ir., Xo. 1680. 



3 Inq. Chan. Car. I.. Xo. 59 & Xo. 28. 



4 Conf. Act Sett, under dates. 



5 Journal K. S. Antt. Ir., vol. xxxtL pp. 254, 255. 



6 Fulacht Fiadh : see •' Place Xames." p. 381. Keating in his account of the Fiau 

 (Book I, sect, xh Ir. Texts, p. 329) tells how the soldiers cooked, boiling by heated 

 stones, " and these fires were so large that their sites are to-day in Ireland burned to 

 blackness, and these are now called Fulacht Fian by the peasantry." 



