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then shore of the lake. They built the new entrance in the more defensible 

 corner near the last, and made a quay-like wall around the inner shore. 

 They did not, however, build the group of houses that growing want of 

 convenience and comfort led the owners to add to the hill towers on similar 

 fortified headlands elsewhere, like Dundeady or the Old Head of Kinsale. 

 The surface of the lake is still 262 feet over the sea. 



Dunlocha. — The remains of the ancient Dun are well marked, and run 

 N.N.E. and S.S.W. in a straight line. The end reaches remain, but all the 

 part across the bare rock of the knoll has been removed, like the upper part 

 of the rest, for building material for the later towers and wall. The two 

 reaches can be seen in line from the rising ground at the cliff. Inside the 

 triangular space between the southern reach and the later rampart are two 

 fosses ; the older work lies 6 feet out from the inner end and consists of the 

 foundation of large blocks of the wall and gateway. Three slabs and the 

 gaps from which two others have been removed run for 12 feet to the gate. 

 The latter is 4 feet 6 inches to 4 feet 4 inches wide ; its left (south-west) jamb 

 is 5 feet deep, 3 feet thick, and 3 feet 9 inches high ; the other 4 feet 4 inches 

 by 3 feet x 3 feet 6 inches high. Five large blocks run for 21 feet towards 

 the cliff, and the foundation is faintly traceable nearly to the edge. The line 

 is destroyed for 200 feet across the knoll at the keep ; it was probably of smaller 

 stones, and built on the bare rock, so was easily obliterated. We find the 

 north-east reach from about 57 feet from the north-east angle of the keep. For 

 72 feet it is 3 feet to 4 feet 6 inches (at one point nearly 5 feet) high, of 

 large slabs, usually nearly 5 feet long (one 5 feet 6 inches x 3 feet x 1 foot 

 6 inches, another 4 feet 8 inches x 2 feet 3 inches x 15 inches, few under 4 feet 

 long, and 2 feet thick) ; they end, neatly built into the crags of the bluff. 



The later works are two fosses, with mounds and a glacis, formed of the 

 natural ridge carefully cut into shape. At 42 feet back from the cliff the 

 slope is 23 feet wide from the wall to the inner fosse, which is 9 feet wide 

 and 8 feet below the bank ; the intermediate mound is 12 feet thick and 

 3 feet high, the fosses being evidently somewhat 611ed. The outer fosse is 

 6 feet to 8 feet wide. 



Along the top of the terraced glacis, the rampart runs, commencing at 

 the cliff (above Coosnaronety or Seal cove), where is a slight pier 6 feet wide 

 and a bending wall returned outward, showing that no alteration has taken 

 place at the edge since at least the fifteenth century. The rampart runs for 

 97 feet 6 inches from the cliff to the keep; it is broken at about 42 feet from 

 the former, and usually 7 to 9 feet high. 1 



1 Plan, Plate xxiv ; View Plate, XXIII, No. 3. 



