O'Eeilly— 0>i the Waste of the Coast of Ireland, S^'c. Ill 



waves. Passing upward and onward towards the highest point, the 

 traveller will begin to perceive that this precipice is crowned with a 

 circular wall, ' grey, weatherbeaten and wasted,' whose broken and 

 serrated edge stands dark against the sky." 



(p. 2.) — " The solitude and grandeiu- of the scene are un- 

 speakable." 



(p. 3.) — "Dun ^ngusa or the fort of JEngus, is named from one 

 of the sons of Hua !M6r, a chieftain famed in the earliest period of 

 Irish legendary history. It occupies an angle of the cliff, and is 

 therefore protected by it on two sides to the north and west. It is, in 

 plan, ii-regularly concentric, composed of three areas or wards, each 

 within its wall. The interior of the fort proper is half an ellipse, 142 

 feet on the short diameter which rests on the cliff, and 150 feet deep, 

 being half the long diameter, which projects northward fi'om the 

 cHff. The containing wall is 8 feet to 12 feet thick. The entrance 

 is on the west-east, 90 feet from the cliff." 



(p. 4.) — " The inner doorway is a rude, flat-topped opening, 3 feet 

 4 inches wide. Only its upper 3 feet is now visible (1870-75), the 

 lower part being covered up with rubbish. When Dr. O'Donovan 

 saw the doorway in 1839 it was perfect. It has since shared the 

 mournful fate which awaits the whole structure. 



"The annexed di'awing made in the spot in the year 1857, by 

 ^Mr. Frederick "William Burton, was then a faithful representation of 

 this doorway ; but since that time a great change has been effected." 



(p. 9.)—" 'Bulh Catliair; ' The Had fort; Aranmor." 



(p. 10.) — " Dr. O'Donovan observes that this fortification would 

 appear from its colossal rudeness to be many years older than Dun 

 ^ngus or Dun Conor. The guide, an old man, who accompanied me to 

 the place, informed me that he remembered the wall neaidy perfect ; but 

 that a great part of it had fallen in a storm a few years ago. Scarcely 

 any of the inside face of the wall now remains, and the force of the 

 Atlantic waves has swept away the lesser buildings which it enclosed. 

 One wave he described as rising in such a vast body of water above the 

 cliff, that it overran the hollow within the wall of the fort, and flung 

 the stones on all directions. 



^^ Tnishmaan is thi'ee miles long from the north-east to the south- 

 west, and half a mile wide between Trawtagh on Gregory's Sound, to 

 Trawbetteragh on the Foul Sound." 



(p. 14.) — " The north part of the island is bounded by low cliffs, 

 strands or shingle beaches. On the south-west from Trawtagh to 

 Aillinera, the cliffs rise in steps, at the latter place being perpendicular, 



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