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side being sheltered by a neighbouring high cliff. It is only about 40 feet 

 across. Not far away eastward of the stream from Ballymacart 1 is a terrace, 

 or shelf, along the cliff with stone-walled little enclosures. It is hard to 

 imagine so insecure a condition of life as to have made it necessary to fence 

 and use such small and barren spots ; perhaps (being near the Danish 

 settlement of Dungarvan and Helvick) they were used for temporary refuge 

 during raids. The fort, doubtless, had a single hut, like the small fort at 

 Dunaneanir, Co. Mayo. 



Akdoginna, 3 Gort an Duinin (0. S. 40).— The "Journal" of the "Waterford 

 and South-East Ireland Society, in 1907, made a criticism on a statement in 

 my former paper in 1906, which for the correction of archaeological notes 

 it is important that I should here meet. " The first fort in his list 

 Mr. Westropp places in the wrong townland, as it ought to he Ardoginna, 

 not Ballynamona," adding that there are two townlands of the latter name. 

 Strange to say, the critic fell into the very confusion that he deprecated. 

 Had he verified the sheet of the Ordnance Survey given by me, he would 

 have seen that I placed the fort in the Ballynamona near Mine Head on 

 sheet 39, not in Ballymona near Ardmore on sheet 40. Rev. P. Power 

 in his " Place Names " refers in a foot-note to the Ardoginna fort as the 

 " Ballynamona " in the 1906 paper. 3 He adds that there is a promontory 

 fort there, giving its name to G-ortaduinin field. Now I examined the coast 

 of Ardoginna townland, and found nothing resembling a promontory fort 

 unless a fenced knoll at the mouth of the stream valley south-west from 

 Ardoginna House be intended, and I do not think that it is an ancient fort 

 or, if so, the trace is very slight and defaced. May not Gortaduinin be called 

 after some little levelled housering — there being at least one between the 

 modern house and the cliffs ? Unfortunately Father Power could not find his 

 original notes to reply to my queries, and of the long and interesting list of 

 shore names collected by him, only one, " Knocknanvaddera " (for Fail a 

 mhadraidh), appears on the maps. He tells 4 of a cliff site called Clock (or 

 Crock) an oigkre, the heir's rock (or gallows) with a typical " Leap " legend. 

 The heir of a large property had a rival in love who slipped a golden goblet 



1 Charter Boll ix Ed. I, m 10, grant of Balimaicort et Baliabrain, 1281 ; Archbishop 

 Miler MacGrath's visitation, 1588, Ardmore Deanery, ' ' Ballymacart et Balyabran, vacat, 

 vasat ; ult. incumbens ignoramus." 



2 This is probably the " Minard," high mountain-flat, of the portolan maps. 

 Minard 1360 and 1436, Minart 1375, 1497, 1513, and 1593, Proc. E. I.Acad., xxx, p. 419. 

 Maurice Fitzgerald of Ballyogertye held Ardogena 1376 (Inq. Chancery, No. 39, Car. I). 

 The name is probably Ard o gCineadh : " Place Names," p. 61. 



3 "Place Names," p. 62. 



4 "Place Names," p. 62. 



