3-1 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academp. 



1836. Di-. Petrie's beautiful vaew, reproduced in Miss Stokes's " Christian 



Antiquities of Irelaud." It shows the fort and cliff from the east.' 

 1847. C. Cheyne, reproduced by Babbington and Wilde, ut supra, and 



Dr. Joyce's " Social History of Ancient Irelaud," ii., p. 58. Fort from 



the north-west. 

 1857. F. W. Burton, reproduced by Dunraven and Stokes, ut mpi-a. Door 



of the central fort. 

 1875. Lord Dunraven's fine photographs. (1) Fort and clifl from east. 



(2) Fort from north-west. (3) Portions of middle and inner walls." 

 1878. Camera sketches — (1) Fort, distant, from east. (2) From north. 



(3) From north-west.' (4) The inner gateway. (5) The inner fort from 

 east. (6) Interior showing terrace. 



Plans. 



O'Donovan and Petrie. O'Donovan is followed by Dunraven, Babbington, 

 and Haverty. All these are little better than sketch-maps. Windele gives 

 an extremely crude plan, only showing two crescent walls concentric and 

 with gates. 



APPENDIX B. 



Unpublished Descriptions before 1880. 



Tlic records of a fort whose origin is lost in the darkness, and which 

 apparently finds no place in later Annals, of course must consist largely ot 

 tlie papers written on its remains. An uni-estored fort is its own record ; but, 

 to one wlio recalls the weird chaos of ruin-heaps in 1878, and contrasts it 

 with the neat, level -topped enclosures left by the restorers six years later 

 the old descriptions, no matter how rude, assume a great importance, and 

 should be laid before one's readers. We collect those of Petrie, O'Donovan, 

 Windele, and the result compiled from our own notes and sketehes before the 

 restoration. We cannot believe that these have exhausted all the early 

 unpublislied descriptions; but we hope to lead anyone who has notes on Dun 

 Aengusa, taken in or before 1884, to publish the same and perfect, as far as 

 possible, the record of that great fortress. 



' Tlie artist overpoverrd the antiquary ; by increasing the size of the waves and the human 

 figures he make^ the cliff a mere fractinn of its height , and overhanging too far. The fort, however, 

 is accurately drawn. 



' I have been kindly permitted to reproduce these last two by Messrs. George Bell and Sons, 

 York House, London. The lottcr also appears in Joumnl E. S. A. I., vol. zxxiv., 267. 



'This was published in Juun>al E. 8. A. I., vol. xxy., p. 267, in 1895. I trace from it, as the 

 original seems lost. 



