196 Proccedhifja of the Iiojial Iri-'ih Acuileiii//. 



high ; tlie walls 4 feet thick, but evidently thiimer above, as they cove in for 

 the roof. Tlie doorway is of a very usual size, ?> feet higli by 2 feet 6 inches ; 

 like the 102 feet wide of the garths of forts, I have found the dimensions 

 very frequently on the mainland. Tliere is a door to each side ; one was 

 blocked in 1878, and an end window, wliieh, like the eighth-century huts at 

 Skellig, " contrived a double debt to pay" as a window and a chimney. 



C'LOGIIAUNAPHUCA, Clochan ua puca. (0. S. 110.)— Xamed after the mis- 

 chievous demon-horse or goat so familiar in our place-names and folk-lore. It 

 resembles a cairn, and is .SO feet long, 18 feet wide, and 12 feet to 14 feet 

 liigli, with two rooms inside. Tliere ai-e two low doors, the northern closed 

 by fallen stones; the chamber is oblong, cut in two by a low cross- wall, with a 

 door in the middle and oi)es to either side. The apartments measure 22 feet 

 by 10 feet and 10 feet by 7 feet. Tlie roof rises in corliclled coui-scs ; tiic iiut 

 had once little enclosures to eacli side. 



Onaoiit. (O.S. 110.) — Two clogliauns stand on the hillside, due west 

 from Dun Onaght. Tliey arc of the later type, the northern being rectangular, 

 18 feet by 14 feet wide, nntl 10 feet high. It (as is .so common) has doors to 

 the north and soutli ; tlie first is the lai-ger, l)cing 3 feet square ; the other is 



2 feet 6 inches by 2 feet. Tliere is a window to the south, 1 foot square and 



3 feet up. The roof waa destroyed just liefore 18G6 by rabbit-hunters, the 

 structure l>eing then jtorfect. Tlie southern hut is lo feet long by 12 feet, 

 and 9 t<> 10 feet liigli, witii nortli and .south dooi-s, and a window at the south- 

 west comer, the west wall resting on a low shelf of rock. They were first 

 noted by O'Donovan in 18.S9.' 



ISaii.e xa seax. — For illustration, we may .select some typical examples 

 from this lai-ge seltleiiient on the centml liill of the i.sland, for, since Mr. 

 George Kinahan' wrote, the remains have so suffered by rabl>it-hunters, and 

 l)een so buried in heaps of stones collected off tlie fields, that there is little to 

 i-ei^ay the dangerous and jiainful climbing of loo.se walls, endless from the net- 

 work of little fields, in one's search for lints at any distance from the narrow 

 rough liohereens that give passage across the island. (No. 7.) There is a 

 slab hut of six large stones ; it is 8 feet long, 3 J feet wide, and 4 feet liigl), but 

 may Iw a dolmen, from its long and nan-ow proportions. (No. 9.) Two 

 circular huts 24 feet in diameter ; tlieir walls are of a single thickness fif stones, 



' Ordnance Survey Jjciten, p. 22!). He gives the dimnnsions a« tlic soulliem liut, 14 fci't 

 3 inches east and «c.«t by 6 feet 2 inches wide ; it is angular .it the vtcst •' corners " and rounded at 

 t)ic lostcm ones. The roof is covere<l by ten slabs, 8 feet al-ove llie floor, with two lintellcd doois to 

 the north and south. The second hut is to the north-east. Half its roof is jjone; it in IR feet by 

 7 fL-et o inches, with north and south doors 1 foot 8 inches to 1 foot 9 inches wide. Mr. Kinahan 

 gives the dimensions as in the text. 



' Prno, R. I. Acad., vol. x. (1866-70). p. 28. 



