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the keep measures 240 feet. From this angle the wall turns southwards 

 towards the cliflf, which \sic\ is now very much destroyed. Its length from 

 the angle above mentioned to the brink of the cliff is 176 feet. 



" Outside this second wall is placed a host of shai-p stones slopewise . . . 

 [p. 211.] Many of them are so sharp that if one fell against them they 

 would run him through, [p. 213.] This army of stones is in some places 30 feet 

 deep, and extends all round immediately' outside the second wall from cliff 

 to cliff. They are nearly perfect on the west side, and also on the east ; but 

 on the north-east many of them have been removed by the islanders to 

 facilitate the passage to the sea. 



[Fragment ok Old Wall.] " Outside the second wall and between it 

 and the chevaux dc frisc[^sic\ there is another fragment of a wall which seems 

 never to have been carried around more than about the one-tenth part of the 

 ring. The part of it at present standing is 7 feet 9 inches in height and 

 G feet in thickness. 



[Outer Wali_] " Outside the chcmux dc frise of stones there is another 

 wall which encloses a great extent of ground, and runs from cliff to cliff; a 

 line drawn from the north and by the west side of the second wall to this. 

 passing through the chemux dc frise, measures 129 feet, and a line drawn 

 from the northern part of the same wall in a north-west direction to an 

 obtuse angle formed by this at the north-west point, measures Zd-i feet. 

 This wall is here very much injured; but from what remains of it I have 

 l>een able to ascertain that it was built exactly similar to the second wall 

 already described, that is formetl [p. 214] of two distinct divisions which 

 would stand independently of each other. A line drawn from the broken 

 doorway in the second wall, already mentioned, to the north-east point of 

 this mea.sures 4"J4 feet. At the portion I have been able to ascertaiu that 

 the wall was 8 feet thick, and well built ; but the original height could not be 

 inferred from any fragment of it now remaining. A line drawn from this 

 point to the edge of llie cliff measures .^86 feet; and a line drawn from the 

 second wall at the edge of the cliff to the extremity of this at the edge of the 

 cliff, also measures 640 feet." 



[O'Donovan then rightly points out the falsity of Beaufort's imaginary 

 \iew, which imposed on Ledwich, "Antiquities of Ireland," p. 139, and gives, 

 on p. 221, sketches of the bronze antiquities fotmd, not many months ago, by 

 boys rooting for rabbits. A " fish-hnok," '■'<{ inches long, portion of a fibula, 

 and pins, now in Petrie Museum.] 



I need only comment on the above description, that O'Donovan does not 



' Tbia is only true of die eastern («.«, aa we pointed oat. 



