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Page 701 (123). Kilbradran. The fort is stone-faced, 100 feet in 

 diameter, with curved annexes to the north, west, and south-oast ; 

 of these the western is the chief, with a deep fosse and earth-works, 

 6 to 11 feet high, and is 50 to 70 feet across its "half-moon" 

 girth. The north annexe is much defaced, 118 feet across, with fosse 

 and earthworks, 5 feet high. The eastern annexe is nearly levelled ; 

 two ancient roads wind round it to the central caher ; it is 187 feet 



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The fort of Kilbradran, County Limerick. 



across, and its earthwork is rarely over 4 or 5 feet high, the fosse 

 being nearly filled up. 



Page 704 (126). Add to the promontory forts of Waterf ord, " Island 

 Hubbock ' entrenchment.' It has two deep fosses and a mound, and 

 is on a sheer headland." 



Page 705 (127). Add to "descriptions" of Dunnamoe that by 

 Eev. Caesar Otway, in "Erris and Tirawley (1841)," p. 67. 



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