Westkopp — Eurli/ Forln und Stone IJk/h in Jiih/niion-, Aran. 199 



Fartlier ti) the uoith-west, in tliu same lielil, was another straight-walled 

 clogliaun, umnarked on the maps ; it has been almost completely overthrown 

 by rabbit-hunters, only a fragment of the facing to the east being visiljle in the 

 heap of stones. In the next field, about 400 feet from the edge of the clifl' 

 at Pouldick, is another cell, one of the most curious of the Aran huts. It 

 may be roughly described as oval, 11 feet 9 inches to H feet 1 inch north 

 and south, and 9 feet east and west ; l:>ut low recesses, where there is a corner, 

 roofed diagonally by an upper slab, render its real shape explicable only by a 

 plan ; blocks 4 feet to over 5 feet long are to the north-west and south-west ; 

 there is a projecting pillar inside to the north-east. The low lintelled 

 door 2 feet wide, and nearly filled, is to the (compass) east. There is 

 another doorway, 1 foot 8 inches wide, and better preser\-ed, to the south, 

 which leads into an enclosure, 14 feet wide and 17 feet 6 inches long. The 

 hut walls are 5 feet 6 inches to 6 feet thick, with two faces of blocks and 

 an occasional bond-stone through the wall. 



About a mile and a half to the east near the bay of Portdeha 

 (Port daibche),' celebrated by Magraidin in the " Life of St. Enda " in 1380, 

 the Eev. W. Kilbride^ found another cloghaun buried in the sand. It is now 

 reburied, and we must follow his description. The eloghauus were near 

 Cala na luinge ship-harljour, and a place called Templenamrawher, Friars 

 church, where no early building is extant.' They resembled piles of stones 

 externally, the second having a rude slab or tombstone on the top. About 

 1810, said the natives, a French or Spanish ship was wrecked, and all its crew 

 lost in Cala na luinge. The natives buiied the reco\'ered Viodies in the sand, 

 and so dug down on the hut, its roof falling in. In September, 1867, 

 Mr. Thompson, of Leeson Street, Dublin, and Captain Eowau, of Tralee, 

 excavated the eastern hut, which rests on the rock. The lower part for 4 feet 

 high is rectangular, 8 feet 2 inches by 8 feet 9 inches, and then rises in a dome 

 8 feet high ; the entrance was 1 foot 7 inches wide, and the masonry very 

 regular. From the door is a passage 3 feet 6 inches to 4 feet 7 inches wide 

 and 3 feet 6 inches high. At the east end are six steps, the topmost level 

 with the side walls of the passage. A large ring of stones 72 feet across 

 enclosed the huts. 



' Port doiklie, see 0' ['"lalierty, 16S5, "hlur Connaugbt," p. 83, "portus dolii," in the ''Life," 

 where the barrel ol c orn came ashore by u miracle. 



= See " lararna," Eoy. Hist, and Archiuol. Assoc, Ir., vol. x., consec. (Ser. 3, vol. i.), 

 1868-9, p. 109. 



^The list given by Quelaeus, about 163.5, names a Temple Maclonija, near the parish church of 

 Killenda. Unless "near " is used in a niiiTow sense, one suspects that it is Templeniinirawher, for 

 the component "long" ship appears in Cahi na luinge. "Mac" is a common mistake for other 

 components, "an," " na," &c. 



