Wkstkoi'I' — Etirlij l^orh and i!:>louc Hal's in lukliDiorc, Aran. 185 



the island. It stands nn a low, rocky knoll, on the edge of the ridge, in the 

 townland of Killeany, and seonis to have been very little altered since 1839, 

 wlien O'Donovan fii'st recorded it.' The caher is much overthrown, hut portions 

 of tlie facing of large bloclcs, laid very irregularly, but exhibiting one cliaruc- 

 teristic upright joint, are standing. Many of the slabs are 6 feet thick. There 

 are a large base course, two faces, and large filling ; the outer facing remains in 

 reaches to tlie west, north-west, and south-east. The wall is greatly overthrown 

 by rabbit-hunters inside. The garth measures 81 feet north and south ami 

 51 feet east and west, the wall being in parts 7 feet high and 8 feet thick, but 

 only 4 feet high at the gateway, where the lilocks as a rule are 2 feet l:iy 

 1 foot 6 inches by 9 inches, but some 4 feet to 6 feet long. The gateway faced 

 the south-east ; the jambs were built in courses, and the lintel was 4 feet 

 6 inches by 21 inches by 10 inches, showing that the ope was very narrow ; 

 it seems to lie but little over 3 feet wide and 4 feet high. No foundations 

 remain in the garth. 



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O'Donovan calls it a " cyclopean Bolgic fort of small dimensions," 72 feet 

 in diameter, the wall 7 feet high, but too crumbled to allow its thickness to be 

 ascertained. 



Duns neai; Ogiiil. (0. S. 110.) 



Mr. Kinahan records another " Dun " near Oghil, which had a well- 

 preserved trilithic gateway which he sketched ;- it is 70 feet in diameter, with 

 a wall 8 feet thick ; the doorway is 3 feet high, and 3 feet 5 inches wide, 

 facing the south-east. In the same townland, not far away, is a casliel 60 feet 

 in diameter to the south-west of Cloghaunaphuca. The larger dun seems to 

 measure 110 feet by 220 feet approximately; it is a very ililapidated oval 

 fort, half a mile from Dun Oghil, called " M'Doon," the strongest fort on the 

 islands, with two or three other small cahers. All of these arc now extremely 

 dilapidated. The chief " Dun " was described by O'Donovan in 1839 ; it lay 



' Orrtnimie Survey LcUers, p. 251. 



'^ Haidwicke's "Soionce Gossip" (lS7o), p. SI. We copy liis sketcli as lilUc known. 



