298 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



14. Scattery : c 52 feet ; A. 100 feet. ITeaiiy perfect. Door (head with 

 corbelling and lintel) on ground level. Popular name, " Clogas 

 Iiise CatKaig." Description, T. J. "Westropp, Journal E. S.A.I. 

 (1897), p. 282. IS'ational monument. 



IS.^Tomgraney : This was "built" about 964 by Cormac ua Cillen.^ 

 Brian Boru is recorded to have built or repaired the church and 

 cloictheach at this place.'^ The older peasantry, early in this 

 century, are said to have remembered a fragment of it still stand- 

 ing ; but Brash in later days found no trace of such a legend. 



CotTKTY Cork. 



16.*Brigooii: The upper part is said to have been blown down in a 

 storm in 1720. Only 15 feet remained standing, and this, in 1807, 

 was demolished to build the glebe-house. It was then found to 

 rest on a square base ; one quoin-stone had three rows of letters, 

 of which H.TJ.o — p.p — c were legible (? op bo . . . ). Some account 

 of the site is given by Canon C. Moore. ^ 



17. Cloyne : c. h'2 feet ; li. 100 feet. Cap gone ; top has late battle- 

 ments. Door, 1 1 feet 9 inches up ; has lintel. Popular name, 

 " Giolcagh." Human skeletons lay facing eastward in base. 

 Top destroyed before 1739 (Harris), probably in 1683, when 

 bell was hung in it. Descriptions, R. E. Brash, Journal E.S.A.I. 

 (1858), p. 261. See also ihid., 1897, p. 339. 



IB.^Cork — St.Finbarrs : Shown as the "Eound or Watch Tower" on a 

 map of 1545. It appears on Speed's map (1610) as " The Spyre," 

 M. de la BouUaye le Gouz, in his "Tour in Ireland," 1644, 

 describes it thus : — " An old tower, 10 or 12 feet in circumference 

 (sec), more than 100 feet high. It was believed to have been 

 miraculously built by S. Baril." 



A view of it and the adjoining cathedral is engraved on a 

 8 iver chalice, 1669, behind a figure of St. Barry.* We learn 

 from this that the tower was lofty and battlemented like Cloyne 

 or Kildare, and had a round-headed doorway about 1 5 feet above 

 the ground, and seven windows. Some soldiers, using it in the 

 attack on the fort in 1690, it was fired upon and shaken, so that 



1 ChronicoiL Scotorum. 



2 Wars of the G. and G., p. 141. 



3 Jom-nal of the E.S.A.I., 1SS9, p. 225. 

 '^Ibid. Vol. v., Ser. iv., p. 445. 



