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"Irish Builder" (1877, anonymous wiitci). Articles on Aran, commencing 



April 15th, 1886. 

 Kinahan, G. H. (1875). " Sketches in the West of Ireland " ; <' Science 



Gossip" (Hardwicke), 1875, p. 127.> 

 Ledwich, Edward (1797). In Introduction to Grose's "Antiquities of 



Ireland," vol. ii., p. iv., and his own " Antiquities of Ireland," p. 140.'' 

 O'Donovan, John (1839). MS. notes. " Letters on County Gal way." 



Ordnance Survey (E. I. Acad.). 

 O'Flaherty, John (1821). "Sketch of Arran Isles." Trans. K.I. Acad., 



vol. xiv., pp. 72-140. 

 O'Flaherty, Roderic (1684). "Ogygia," p. 85. "hiar Connaught" (Ir. 



Archaeol. Soc), p. 76. 

 Petrie, George (1820 and 1857). " Military Architecture of Ireland " (ms. 



E. I. Acad.). 

 Stokes, Miss Margaret McNair (1876). " Early Christian Architecture of 



Ireland," p. 14, and plate I. 

 Wakeman, W. F. (1862). "Aran, Pagan and Christian." Duffy's 



" Hibernian Magazine," vol i., p. 577. 

 Westropp, T. J. (notes, 1878). Handbooks, Ko. ii. (1895), p. 56; vi. (1904), 



p. 73 ; and Journal Eoy. Soc. Ant. Ir., 1885, p. 256. " Ancient Forts 



of Ireland." Sections 46, 49, 81, 94, 123. 

 Wilde, Sir W. (1872). " Lough Corrib," p. 265, view by C. Cheyne, drawn 



1847. 

 Windele, John (1858). Topographical MSS. Supplement (Library, E. I. Acad.), 



vol. i., p. 740. 



Views. 

 1795. Imaginary view given by Dr. Ledwich, in Grose's " Antiquities of 



Ireland," ii., p. iv, and in his own " Antiquities of Ireland," plate xi., 



p. 140.^ 

 1839. Masonry of Dun Aenghus, by W. F. Wakeman, in " Ordnance Survej' 



Letters." 



^ He only mentions one ranipait of tiaggy limestone and the vhecttux de frist\ 

 - Ledwich regards the fort as a monastery ; he neither visited it nor took any pains to get 

 any accurate view or description of the ruin. "There are many of tliese niandrae dispersed over 

 this kingdom liitherto unnoticed ; one remarkable is Dun Aengus . . . situateil on a high clitf over 

 the sea, and is a great circle of monstrous stories without cement." The inaccuracy and dogm.itism 

 are very characteristic of the work cited. Windele also grievously attacks " this pretentious 

 antiquary," while giving a theory of his friend, Mr. Thomas L. Cooke, who supposed the fort to 

 be a pagan temple, and the little recess in the wall a room for " a priest or two, with attendants " ! 

 it being (as we noted) less than 3 feet wide, 4 feet high, or 8 feet long. 



'The view is stated to be by M. Hoo])er, July .itli, ITOS, engraved by Spnrrow, in Grose, but 

 we read " W. Beaufort del. J. Ford sculp. J'ub. by Jolin Jones, 90 Bride S' Dublin " on the plate in 

 Ledwich's own worl;. 



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