188 Froceci1in(js of the Royal Irish Academy. 



walls.' The banquette was usually 3 feet high, but 6 or 7 feet lower than 

 the upper waU. The wall was 20 feet thick ; the inner division being 2 feet 



6 inches, the micklle 10 feet, and the outer 7 feet. Three flights of steps 

 south-west, south, and north-east gave access to the banquette : the southern 

 led from it to tlie top, ami the north fliglit had been nearly destroyed. My 

 own notes on the fort (1S7S) are valueless. 



As it now stands, we may note that the outer rmg- had two sections 

 visible at least to the north-west, where there is trace of a terrace. It was of 

 lai-ge bhxiks to the south and south-west, some 6 feet long and 18 inches 

 thick, set lengthways at the base, but usually as " headers " above ; the 

 square ends being visible, the intei-sticcs (as at Dun Aengusa) being packed 

 with spawls of stone. It is 8 or 9 feet high, resting on a low ridge, and niueli 

 ivy grows out of it, as at Dun Conor. There are gateway gaps with no traces 

 of old work, one to the north-east and two to the soutli. The intei-space 

 lietwcen the walls is 59 feet to the east, 89 feet to the north-east, and usually 

 40 to 50 feet elsewhere, the plan not being an oval, as m the Ordnance Survey 

 I>^tters and Lfjrd Dunraven's notes, liut very irregular. Tiiere are only a 

 modem house ruin, and late travei-ses or ratlier field walls in the interspace. 



The inner wall' had two divisions, now indistinguishable, and a terrace ; it 

 was from 11 feet to 15 feet high. It has a regular batter, like tlie Clare, Mayo, 

 and Keny forts, but this (save to the north and east) is distorted in parts. 

 Tlic jamlks of the gateway are ancient IxjIow, (jf great long stones, 9 feet 



7 inches by 2 feet 3 inches, where lai-gest. No lintels lie alwut, Init several 

 seem to have lain ilown the abrupt ridge before the gateway in former yeare, 

 rendering it proliable that tlicre had been an inserted gateway like that at 

 Dun Aengusa. 



The pas.sage was 7 feet 9 inches wide in 1870 ; as restored it is 8 feet 



7 inclies wiile inside. In the interior we note the following features : — A 

 terrace 5 feet t<i G feet 4 inches high, ami frr)m 2 feet to .3 feet 6 inches wide 

 (nowhere 7 feet wide, as stated in some books) ; the wall rises 5 feet or 6 feet 

 above it. Going northward fnun the gateway, we find traces of two flights of 

 steps, one above the otlier, to the north-east ; the upper only retains three steps 

 m>wa.s in 18."'.9: one is of two stones; they are less tlian 2 feet wide. Of the 

 lower tlight the b<Jttom ste|)s remain, but the recess (defaced in 1877) has been 

 built up by the restorers. Tlie ujiijer is 12 feet 9 inches, the lower 13 feet 



8 inches from Uie gateway. The next is to the north-west, about 55 feet 

 (round the wall) from the gateway. Five ladder-steps, 3 feet 2 inches long. 



' As bu 6ne pbotograph showt, it also proves that b long reach of the outer wall to (1 ihiiik) 

 the wcjt, » as either entirely levelled to the bare crag, or only three to four courses remainid (Plate 

 VIII.). This is now rebuilt. ' Pinto VI., fig. 2. ' Plato VI., fig. 1. 



