Wks'I'Ki il'P — Edvbi Foii-'i mul tStonc lliih in liii>iltiii(in', Aran. 19-3 



a tliird by ]\Ir. P. J. Lyncli Jicar St. Finan's P.ay, Kerry. The last liad a liole 

 througli it, and it is not iiiip(j.ssible that the lioled .stone at Kileaniianagh, in 

 tiie Middle Isle of Aran, was of this character. They are usually distinguished 

 as "cuiudachs" (i.e., shrines) or bone bo.xes.' 



Dun near Kiuiukvey. (O.S. 110.) 



There was a large and strong fort, a ring wall, round Temple na naeve 

 oratory, behind Mr. P. Johnson's stables ; only the curved line of small tilling 

 and large blocks, much overgrown, is found to the north and east of the cell : 

 the name is forgotten. A wall embodying many large upturned blocks runs 

 along the crag behind (i.e. south and west) of Mr. Johnson's gardens. 

 O'Donovau could not learn in 1839 from the owner, Mr. Patrick O'Flaherty, 

 that it had ever been a circle. It is said that stones with arrow-like markings 

 were found in making the garden, Ijut none are known to exist. Petrie' 

 says it (Cill mur ilhaighe) was a circular wall, lo feet wide on top and 20 feet 

 high, in 1821, "the stones being of vast magnitude." At an angle on the 

 west side are the remains of a square tower 41 feet long and 20 feet wide, 

 but the wall was only 3 feet thick. It contained several chambers in the 

 rock, roofed by slabs, and cii-e\xlar or oval houses, of which the largest was 

 50 feet Ijy 37 feet. It also surrounded two churches and two copious springs. 

 The existing remains do little to support his description, for the remarkable 

 fortress, along with the circular hut, was levelled ere eighteen years hail 

 passed. Near the chuieh Lord Dunraven only found four courses of masonry 

 remaining " for 50 to 100 yards." 



Clochauns on Huts. 



I do not intend to describe seriatim all the existing cloghauns in 

 Ai-anmore ; but a few notes on these residences are too closely akin to the 

 subject of the forts to be out of place. They are of very primitive form, but 

 there is every reason, here, as at Corcaguiny, in Kerry (where we have seen 

 " early bee-hive huts" built some five years since), to believe that they were 

 made in Aran down to the last century. Many remember the story of the 

 man wlm, wlu'n the lUitish Association in 1857 were examining some huts,^ 

 declared he had luiill them fur his dunkey tlie year before; but few remember 



1 This fort is eviduiitly tlie " Fort Cariiuk " of Mr. (!. ]I. Uiirt^horiie's somewlmt iimucumte 

 paper (Aroliaioloijiu (Juiiibrensis (N.S.), iv. p. 208). I liiivi; found the imiiie in no oiIkt place. 

 ''Fort Carrick ii nmcli smaller work, a single ciruuiuvullutlon, but tho masonry, sallyport entrance, 

 and alcove were analogous to the others." 



2 Military Arohiteetuie, p. 09. 



3 "The Aran Isles" (the e.xuui-sion of the British Association, 1857), Martin Havorly, 1859, 

 p. U. 



