Wkstijopp — Eavbj For Is and Shnc Huts in Inishmorc^ Aran. 179 



sec of 'I'uaiii, and tlie tliird to tlio repiesonialivcss of Uio Eogliaiiaclit Niiiiiis in 

 Corcomroe, whiuli was a virtually inilei)(jn(leiit state doing nominal homage 

 to the Princes of Thomond and the over-kings of Cashel.' 



DUBH CaTIIAII!. 



(Ordnance Survey Map, 6 inches to 1 mile, No. 110.) 



The most remarkable stone fort on Aranmorc after Dun Aengu.sa, and one 

 of the most remarkable in Ireland, had its restoration been more i)rndent and 

 better recorded, is the Black Fort, Dulib Cathair, or locally Dun dun 'haar, 

 the fort of the black calier, wrongly called Doonaghard on the map. ll i.s very 



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I'lim of Oubh Uiitbair, AiMiimore. 



inaccessible, being fenced olT Ijy a long series of tottering, dry-stone walls, and 

 ahiKist impassable laneways, filled with loose stones, the best approach, though 

 circuitous, being along the coast from opposite Killeany. It lies on a high 



whose abbut belonged Cimonaght oi Feneu na prioraght and BuUeboght, also llic mined idigioiis 

 bouse of Monastrooonnaugbt (Manister Kicran), and lands of Anlclone. Tuitagb, Fairenconnaglit 

 Slevin, Balleconnell, Clogbaneprior, Onagbl, Farrane Caniionagbt, Ochill, Crcaghcanagh, 

 ReynboT, Cairilmore, Killeyne, and its parish church, BalloguUe, Arkiu and Sawuskerton 

 ( ? Canowkorton). Tiirtagh is probaldy Tnrlaghmore in Onaglit. 

 ' See the '• }iook of Eiglils " (ed. O'Donovan). 



