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probably entirely reconstructed in 1652. We, however, are only at present 

 concerned with the eloghauns near the remarkable church of Temple Benen, 

 locally, and corruptly, Temple ^Minnaun, the Kid's Chui-ch. Close beside the 

 north door of the latter (for it is rebuilt north and south, not east and west) 

 is a cell, built in a hollow, or cutting, in the rock ; it is 9 feet 8 mches by 

 4 feet 2 inches inside, with walls 3 feet 6 inches thick, and quite featureless.' 

 It was most probably roofed with stone. Farther to the north-west is a 

 very curious, if late-looking, structure of dry-stone work, called in 1878 the 

 Priest's House and the Monk's House,' and quite difiereut in character from 

 any other cloghaun known to me on the island. It measures 25 feet 6 inches 

 to the west, 26 feet 1 inch to the south, and 23 feet 9 inches to the north. 



Cloghaun near Pouldick, KillcanT. 



the south wing, 10 feet 8 inches wide, projecting for 5 feet from the eastern 

 face. In the " set-back," so formed, is a curious semi-circular headed recess 

 beside the door. The latter is 27 inches wide, and over 6 feet high, with lintels ; 

 it has a small recess in the north jamb ; inside the northern part, about 7 feet 

 to 7 feet 6 inclies wide, seems to have had two rooms, while the western had 

 one, but both are filled with fallen stones, and nothing apijears to show how 

 the roof was covered. 'Jhere was a revetment forming a terrace to the 

 north and east on the edge of the crag. 



' •' The Irish Biiil.ier." ixii. (1887), p. 103, describes it a» 10 feet bjr 5 feet * inches, the door 

 2 fevt wide, t£e walU 3 feet thick. 



' I did not hear another name, " The Watch Tower, " in my earlier visits. 



