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trace of a dry-stone wall. The ditch is well-shaped, 1 1 feet to 14 feet deep, 

 and 10 feet to 12 feet wide below. A gangway crosses it at 30 feet from the 

 east end and 90 feet from the west. The inner mound rises 20 feet to 

 22 feet above the fosse, and 6 feet over the garth ; it, too, has a set-back 

 from the garth-level all round the outer face, 1 showing that (like Dunsorske, 

 which it so closely resembles) it had a dry-stone revetment, and possibly a 

 cap-wall. It is 28 feet thick at the base and 6 feet on top ; only the ledge 

 and a few blocks remain of the stone-work. The whole is covered with 

 bushes (sloe, hawthorn, and furze, and a fine willow tree grows at the south 

 end of the bank) occupying the summit of the highest ground ; it is a con- 

 spicuous object, even as seen at a distance. The garth is a garden of wild 

 hyacinth and bracken ; it is only 21 feet across to the crumbling bank ; there is 

 a long, straight hollow, like a collapsed souterrain, close to the dangerous edge. 2 



In the same field, and to the south-west, is a somewhat pyramidal stone 

 3 feet 6 inches high, polished and with scorings up its south-west arrise. 

 They yield no legible ogmic text, and are possibly the work of some idler. 



About three miles from Doonah is a somewhat similar earthwork, with a 

 slightly curved fosse, on a low drift cliff near Blair's Cove house on Dunmanus 

 Bay; It is in the townland of Coulachta in Durrus Parish, and therefore 

 rather belongs to the Muintervara group of forts, for which I must reserve it. 



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Gallaxs or Pillar-Stones. — (0. S. 147) Cloghauculleen : Ballyvogemore ; 

 Letter (circle) : Dough; (148) Kilpatrick ; Beakeen (two); Gunpoint; (138) 

 Coradarrigan (near Schull station) ; (130) Dunbeacon circle. 



Dolmens. — (O. S. 147), Ballyvogebeg ; Leenane ; Arduslough (two) ; 

 Tooreen; Ballydivlen; Ballyrisode; (148) Arderrawinny ; Altar. 



Forts. — (0. S. 146) Caher ; Oughtminnee; Duulough ; (147) Corboge: 

 Cloghanculleen; Lisagriffin ; Balleen ; Gortnagashel (site) ; Ballyvogemore; 

 Caherbaun ; Derryleaiv (two); Cove; (148) Cahervirane ; Derryleary ; 

 Eahaliv ; C'roagh ; Gubleen ; Caherlusky ; Colla ; Ardintenant ; (138) 

 Doonleeu ; Dunkelly (two) ; Bauunacaheragh ; Letter East ; (139) Caherolic- 

 kane ; Laharan ; Shautully; Lisderreen (with " cave "); Eaheenroe ; Mount- 

 Gabriel ; Denyfunchid ; Cashelfeean ; Lissaboagy ; Meenane ; Lissaeaha ; 

 Glan ; Skagh : Ratooragh ; Ballyvonane ; Knockeen ; Dunmanus (two) ; 

 (130) DooDagh. 



1 As at Rathnioi-gain. Co. Mayo, and other forts. 



- View Place XXXIII, No. 1, Plan and Section, Plate XXIV. 



■ This is, of course, » teutative list ; the peninsula is worthy of a detailed survey. 



