Wkstropp — Earlij For Is (ind Stone Huts in Iins/m/orr, Anai. 11J7 



with slabs set on end round the base, and backed with clay. (No. 10.) 

 Another is smaller, of 15 feet diameter, backed also with a circle of slabs 

 27 feet in diameter externally. (No. 14.) Part of a cirenlar chamber in a 

 mound ; a passage leads eastward, and is 18 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 3 feet 

 high, covered with large slabs. To the south-east is a circle of stones, 21 feet 

 across, with another chambered mound and midden. (Xo. 16.) A chambered 

 moimd; one cell is oval, 15 feet by 8 feet; it has an entrance passage at the 

 south-west side, 3 feet square, leading to a circular cell, 12 feet across ; another 

 passage, 15 feet by 4 feet by oi feet, runs to a third round cell, also 12 feet 

 across. The sm-rounding earth mound is fenced by slabs to each side of the 

 entrance. (So. 19.) A large slab hut, 30 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4 feet 

 high, with a small annexe attached to the north-west side. (No. 20.) A cell 

 (like "creg a bhighaun " cloghaun farther south) ;' the chamber is 16 feet lone 

 and 8 feet wide|; the height cannot be fixed. Part of the roof remains ; there 

 are two doors to the north and south 3 feet by 2 feet 6 inches to 1 foot 

 9 inches wide. At the north-east is a window, 1 foot square and 3 feet up 

 the wall. The chamber of Cloghauncalticaunnien is small, circular, and 

 ruined ; it lies south from Cloghaunaphuea to the west of the bohereen from 

 Cowrugh near the field called " the Lag." The only reputed dolmen of the 

 group hes in the fields called " Doonbeg " from the large- western fort. A 

 pillar stone on the ridge, south from Farranacurka village, and another near 

 the " Church of the four comely ones," seems to bound the " city." Tliiity- 

 one huts were recorded by Mr. Eauahan, and many others must have been 

 cleared when the subdivision took place and the walls were made, probably 

 long before 1839. 



KiLCHOENA. — Between Ealronan and the prominent headland of 

 Pollnabriskenagh to the west of the Black Port are two Cloghauus at a burial- 

 ground with a holy well and church name, so they are possibly monastic. 

 One is called Templemore, and measures 48 feet by 22 feet. The drippiuti well 

 Toberchorna is now usually th-y.' Two other rectangular huts lie nearer to 

 the sea. 



KiLLEANY. (O.S. 119.) — This was a place of luueli importance in the 

 history of Aran as St. Enda's settlement, about 480 ; a number of cliurclies, a 

 ro\md tower, and a sculptured high cross of some beauty and richness, 

 attested its sanctity. The O'Briens in the fifteenth century added a 

 Pi'anciscan house and (some say) the Castle of Arkin. The last, an 

 Elizabethan manor and garrison, was probably rebuilt in 1618, and was 



' It lies beside the bobeieen, soutli of the chapel. 



* Perhaps it was " small " compared to Dun Oghil at the other end of the settlement, 



^ See " Aran of tlje Saints" (J. Greiie Barry}, R.S..\.I. xvii. (conscc), p. 499. 



R.I. A. PROC, VOL. XXVIII., SECT. C. [29] 



