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XVII. 



FORTIFIED HEADLANDS AND CASTLES IN WESTERN 

 COUNTY CORK. 



By THOMAS JOHNSON WESTROPP, M.A. 



Part I. — From Cape Clear to Dunmanus Bay. 



Plates XXIII-XXIV. 



[Read January 25. Published May 20, 1915. J 



Having laid before the Royal Irish Academy 1 a survey of the fortified head- 

 lands from Skerkin Island to the estuary of the Barrow and Suir, I venture 

 to continue the notes by extending them along the west coast of Cork, up to 

 the Kenmare River. When this section is done, I hope to complete the 

 subject by a survey giving brief notes and bibliography for each of the 

 similar remains in the three southern provinces of Ireland. It was a slow 

 and difficult task to carry out, but I may claim it to be a necessary work 

 for the completion of the study of the Irish forts, and may hope from the 

 welcome accorded to its different sections that it has proved acceptable not 

 only to British, but to French, and even American, antiquaries. I have, as 

 before, to thank Dr. George Fogerty, R.N., for much kind help. 2 



The types under which Irish promontory forts are best classified we 

 must repeat for reference here— (a) simple fort with a wall, or mound, and 

 fosse, like Oughtminnee, Dunlough, Dunleen, Dunkelly, and Doonah; 

 (&) complex, with several earthworks and fosses, like Knockeen ; (d) multiple 

 fort; (e) platform with natural gangway, Lemcon ; (/) headland with deep 

 natural hollow ; (g) shore rock, probably Doonlea. Since publishing my paper 



1 Proc. R.I. A., vol. xxxii, p. 89. As the survey stands at present it is — Co. Mayo, 

 Proc. R.I. Acad., xxix, p. 11 ; xxx (Part 2), pp. 19, 63, 73 ; R. Soo. Antt. Ir., vol. xlii, 

 pp. 51, 101, 185 ; xliv, p. 67. Aohill, the southern islands of Co. Mayo, and the 

 Galway Islands, xliv, p. 297. Aran, Proe. R.I. Acad., vol. xxviii, p. 178. Co. Clare, 

 R. Soc. Antt. Ir. (North part), xli, p. 135; (Irrus), xxxviii, pp. 28, 221. Kerry 

 (Iraghticonnor), xl, p. 6 ; (Clanrnaurice), p. 99 ; (Corcaguiny), pp. 179, 265 ; (Iveragh), 

 xlii, p. 293. Co. Cork, Proc. R.I. Acad., xxxii, p 89. Co. Waterford, R. Soc. Antt. Ir. 

 xxvi, p. 239. Proc. R.I. Acad., xxxii, p. 188. 



2 I heard of his unexpected death while revising these pages. The loss of so 

 sympathetic and unselfish a helper is a heavy one to me and many other workers. 



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