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into the youth's dress and denounced him as a thief. The victim sprang on 

 his horse and galloped it to the cliff, hoping that he might fail to cross the 

 chasm, but, contrary to all probability the charger sprang on to a grassy 

 ledge unhurt, where the unfortunate lover was found by bulldogs, taken, 

 and hanged on the spot. The cliffs should be re-examined from the " Tea 

 Eock " to Ardoginna House ; and if a fort exists, a description should be 

 published. 



Island, Tigh Na Sgansa 1 (0. S. 32). — The same work mentions " an 

 entrenched headland of the same general character as the Ballyvoony 

 entrenchment." I found no trace of this in Island 2 townland. Is it a 

 mistake for Island Hubbock fort, a little to the west ? No site or indeed any 

 suitable headland for one, appears on even the new maps, and Mr. Ussher 

 certainly knew of none there. 



Bathnameneenagh (O.S. 36). — Near Helvick Head, in Eathnameneenagh 

 and Killinooreen, two apparently suitable headlands are marked on the maps. 

 I am told they are not entrenched, but only saw them in the distance. They, 

 too, should be examined, and, if fortified, should be described. 



Poetalaun (0. S. 26a). — Father Power notes a cliff-fort at Portalaun, 

 between Coolum and Brownstown Head, but could not give me any note. 

 The maps do not mark any headland or entrenchment at the site. My walk 

 along those cliffs was hurried and in the dusk after a long day at Dunmore, 

 Stonycove, and Coolum, so I may have failed to see it. 



I have striven to make this list complete, but, though several times along 

 the coast, the possibilities of oversight remain, though fortified by the 

 valuable opinion and experience of the late Mr. Eichard Ussher. In 

 publishing the notes thus fully I hope to induce antiquaries in Co. Waterford 

 to examine the sites and fill up any omission made by me in noting the 

 fortified headlands of this interesting coast. 



1 P. 176, Tigh na sgansa, House of the " Sconce," or fortress. 



2 In this townland is a fine ring-mound once stone-faced, 4 feet 6 inches to S feet high, 

 and 8 feet thick, in which lay a broken pillar with the ogmic epitaph " Cunet(a)s ma(q)i 

 muc(oi) Netasegamo(n)as. " The gateway of the ring was of large blocks, and faced the 

 west ; a bullaun or basin-stone lay to the east in the garth. 



Note in Press. 



The succession of the Lords of Dunhill (supra, p. 206) seems to be — 1273, John ; 

 Peter, drowned, 1283 ; John, 1290, 1310 ; summoned to Parliament, 1310 ; Peter, slain, 

 1328 ; John, 1337-1351 ; his son John succeeded, but left an only daughter ; John 

 (son of Eustace, brother of the last John) had a son John, Baron of Donill, 1373. 

 Mr. G. D. Burtchaell kindly gave me these notes. 



