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I wrote as 250 feet, as can be seen by the plan) appears as " 200." 1 O'Donovan 

 heard in 1841 that the old " entrenchment " had " been used in the 

 last wars of Ireland," whatever he intended to express by this equivocal 

 phrase. Such a structure could not be put to much use in modern warfare ; 

 it is locally called " Port."* It consists of a long, straight fosse 12 feet wide 

 below, 5 feet to 6 feet deep, over 240 feet long, and fed by a little stream 

 like the last. The inner mound (though greatly defaced by cattle, trampling 

 and horning its slopes, when seeking the damp and shadow of the ditch) rises 



II feet to 13 feet over it, and 5 feet to 7 feet over the garth ; it is 24 feet 

 thick at the field and 15 feet on top. 3 The 1841 map also shows an oval 

 mound, or hut site, in the garth, near the west end, but this seems obliterated. 

 From the lightness of the soil and the comparative preservation, I cannot 

 regard the work in its present condition as very ancient. It lies not far to 

 the west of the three pillars, the central one crowned by the " Metal Man," 

 on Newtown Head, beside Tramore Bay. 



Kathmoylan, Stoittcove (0. S. 27). — The name "Eathmoylan" is not 

 that of the promontory-fort, but of a ring-fort further inland, from which 

 the townland is named ; it is in Gaultiere Barony. I have often found 

 mention of the place, but nothing of connected history. I rest content in 

 giving two entries. In 1301, Bathmolan, in Co. Waterford, was in the king's 

 hands after the death of Balph de Hamptoun, whose widow, Mabilla, had 

 dower off it. 4 John Sherlock held it with Ballemacdavid 5 and other lands in 

 1562. 6 The headland is a low rounded mass of dark-brown stone ; beside it 

 is another headland beyond Stonyeove, and from them runs back westward 

 an impressive rampart of red, crumbling cliffs, the redder layers having 

 weathered more than the rest with striking effect. Beyond are the two white 

 towers and tamer cliffs of Brownstown Head, the eastern bound of Tramore 

 Bay. 



The fort 7 has steep grassy slopes on either flank. There is no outer ring; 



1 Journal R. S. Antt. Ir., vol. xxxvi, p. 256. The length, though written 250 feet 

 (see also plan there), was misprinted as 200 feet. 



2 " Place Names." It is there also called the " Embankment." 



3 For plan see Plate XXI, fig 3. 

 1 Pipe R. No. 22, ann. xxxi. 



5 Ballymacadow, or Ballymacdavid. In 1566 David Browne, of Rathniollan and 

 Brownestown, and John Sherlock, of Ballymacdavid, who died in 1562, are mentioned ; 

 the latter had a son, James, aged twenty-two (Inq. Exchr., No. 2). In 1587 

 Richard Classe was found to have alienated his lands in fee in Ballymacdavid to 

 James Sherlock. (lb. No. 32.) 



6 Inq. Exch., Eliz., No. 2. 



7 See plan on Plate XXI, fig. 5. 



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