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The garth is from about 140 feet to 150 feet across, 150 feet at the cliif ; 

 it was very probably oval, but there seems no datum for the dimensions 

 criven in the " Letters " of 225 feet north and south. In the middle, ou the 

 edge of the precipice, is a rock-platform, evidently scarped and squared, a 

 few feet high, 42 feet north and south, and 27 feet across. From it we can 

 drop a stone into the waves raging, in their unwearied sapping of the cliff 

 .302 feet below. There are no hut-sites in the garth ; if they ever existed, the 

 materials may have been thrown o\er. 



The view from the summit of the fort is most impressive and solemn : the 

 desolate -looking fields, " the soil almost paved with stones," as in 1684, fall 

 away to the golden crescent of Kilmurvey strand, and rise up the opposite 

 hill, past the %-illage of " Gortuagappul,'" to the old lighthouse near Dun Oghil. 

 Eastward runs the long range of steep, dark headlands, and deep bays, 

 rarely unsheeted by high-leaping spray ; while beyond the huge cliff, and 

 "the trouble of the sea that cannot rest," we see the "great wall of 

 Thomond" — Moher— with its violet-shaded bastions. The limits of the view 

 on clear days reach from the giant peaks of Corcaguiny in Kerry to those 

 of Connemara ; while to the south-west is only the horizon of the landless 

 deep, whirling sea-biitls, and the sparkling silver tideways. 



APPENDIX A. 

 P.iiiuo<;i;AriiY, Views, and Pi..vns.= 



15abljingt^>n, Charles C. (1858;. " Firbolg Forts on the Isles of Aran." 



Archaeologia Cambrensia, vol. iv., ser. iii., p. 25. 

 Burke, Oliver J. (1887). " Tiie South Isles of Aran," p. 16. 

 Conroy, Most Rev. George, Bishop of Ardfert (1870). "A Visit to Aran of 



St. Enda." 

 Dunraven. Edwin, Earl of (1875). " Notes on Trisli Arcliitectnrc," vol. i., 



p. 1, plates i.-iii. 

 Ferguson, (Sir) Samuel (1853). " Clonmacnoise, Clare, and Anan." Dublin 



University Magazine, xli., p. 494. 

 Ferguson, Lady (1867). "The Irish before the Conquest" (ed. 1880), p. 6. 

 Hartshorne, Charles H. (185.3). " On the Firbolgic Forts in the South Isles 



of Arran." Archaeologia Cambrensis, vol. iv., N.S., p. 296. 

 Haverty, Martin (1859 . " The Arran Isles." Ethnological Section. British 



Association, republished, p. 19. 



' Oortnagapple on the maps. 



' Only those earlier than 1880, or avowedly founded on notes dating before tliat year, are given. 



