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back to the right i)ier of the gate is 285 feet, or over 290 feet in all. The 

 last flight is (at least in my experience) unique:' it is only 4 feet 9 inches 

 high ; the steps project at 21 inches over the garth, and three steps remain. 

 There are no upright joints visible inside, where (as always) the masonry is 

 smaller than outside ; but there are some well-marked ones outside. The wall 

 is 16 feet 4 inches high at the east steps, being 9 feet 8 inches thick on top, 

 the terrace 3 feet 6 inches wide, and the whole over 14 feet thick below ; the 

 garth is slightly raised over the outer field. The garth is 92 foet novtli ami 

 south, and from the gateway westward is 89 feet 3 inches. Opposite tlie 

 gateway are three straight-walled Ijut far from rectangular huts,' one 10 feet 



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to 1 1 feet long, and 6 feet 6 inche-s wide inside (12 feet to 15 feet outside, and 

 11 feet 8 inches wide); the next lioyond the ladder is from 4 feet to 5 feet 

 2 inches wide ; tliese two abut against the rampart ; the third is 20 feet 

 8 inches by 12 feet 6 inche.s, the wall from 1 foot 6 inches to 3 feet 6 inches, 

 and 4 feet 9 inches Ijetween it and the next hut ; it lias a back wall with two 

 plain ambries. A small well sjtrings from under the crag to the south-east. 



The only feature in Kilchonla or Kilchnrna is a cist, the end stone of which 

 is triangular: this form of cist is evidently of early Chnstian times, two being 

 found by Ix>rd Dunraven at Termon Cronan (Jratoiy, in I'.uiTen, County 

 Clare ; another by Sir William Wilde at Slane (the end stones remain) ; and 



' lU nearest equivalont is u receu with a single shelf or step half-way up the terrace in 

 Cahcrnagrec, Dangan, in the Burrcn, Countv Clare. Journal R. S. A. I., toI. xxxi, pp. 280-1. 

 ' .See Plate VTT., fig. 2. 



