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more modern of St. Brandon's time. Suffice to say, the whole district 

 from Dunleer Mountain, on the eastern side of Dingle, to Slea Head, 

 the western promontory, is full of structures of most ancient date, 

 some above, and others underground, which have only been partially 

 investigated. 



The funds available for the current year have been carefully used, 

 and I trust the results are not over-estimated from an archaeological 

 point of view. 



I have not extended my investigation to the country east of 

 Dingle, but a reference to an Ordnance sheet, upon which I have 

 noted in red many of the numberless structures which abound in this 

 country, is sufficient to show what a field of exploration is available. 

 Taking the promontory of EuU Head alone, I have visited many forts 

 and circles, some of the former surrounded by recessed apartments, 

 and evidently with substructures. Across Bull Head is a massive 

 wall, which I have not explored, and whose uses are as enigmatical as 

 the great fort of Dunenges, at Arran, or the forts at Dunbeg. 



One most remarkable fact is that the inhabitants have a definite 

 name for each dwelling or fort, no matter how much ruined or unob- 

 servable to the visitor. Amongst such designations I find: — 



The city of the course field. The new city. 



The big structure. The city of the Western Coast. 



The cell of the old inhabitant. The fortifications of the rock. 



The cell of the big family. The lair of the little hare. 



The little fort. The black structure. 



The city of the glen of the slope. The white structui'e. 



Martin's big city. The structure of the high place. 



Martin's little city. The structure overlooking the 



The city on the big point. other forts. 



These are a few of the names I have hitherto got ; but I have no 

 doubt that further investigation will add to the nomenclature, and 

 that the cells and other ruins mentioned by Hitchcock can be scheduled 

 and named. 



These names may again raise the doubt as to the antiquity of these 

 remains ; but it must be borne in mind that the majority of them have 

 been overgrown with weeds and covered with stones, and hardly 

 recognizable to the eye until investigated carefully and excavated, 

 60 that it is more than unlikely that modern names should be attached 

 to spots which gave such little evidence of their existence, unless 



