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(an absurd misnomer for the late "court" at Kilnaboy) have large 

 court-yards. 



Eosslara had three cross vaults : one over the other, at the inner 

 end ; and, so far as can he seen, two longitudinal vaults near the 

 door. But the lower stopped short of the middle space, which was 

 only covered by the upper vault. 



Lemeneagh and TJrlanmore have large Elizabethan houses attached 

 to the older turrets. Lemeneagh has also a court and porch, with 

 elaborate coats of arms of Conor and Sir Donat O'Brien ; the inscrip- 

 tion dates 1643, and commemorates the first, and his wife, the 

 notorious Maureen Ehue. There is a large bawn, with comer turrets 

 to the west, and a long garden, with a fish pond and a turret at one 

 angle, to the east. Side buildings were attached to Tomgraney, 

 Colmanstown, Smithstown, near Kilfenora, and many others. Glen- 

 inagh has a side wing contemporaneous with the main building, being 

 almost the only example in county Clare of the familiar " L plan," 

 though a few others (like the Castletowns) have slight projections. 



EouND Castles ajud Foetttted Headlands. 



Three curious towers remain at Doonagore, Faunaroosca, and New- 

 town,^ all three in the old district of the Corcomroes. They are 

 circular, and consist of three stories, two under a beehive vault and 

 an upper one, formerly roofed. A staircase winds round the curve of 

 the wall to the upper room, and thence to the top ; the two first have 

 got bauns. Faunaroosca has a door seven or eight feet above the 

 ground leading to the stair, the ground floor being reached by another 

 door, defended by a machicholation. The bawn is of dry stonewalls. 



There is a doorway or opening at Doonagore 15 feet above the 

 ground: it is 6 feet long, and 3 feet high. On either side are stone 

 holdfasts, grooved, as if to let down a cover from above. Above it is 

 another aperture of equal width, but only a foot high. Doonagore is 

 about 24 feet in diameter and 50 feet high.' 



There is one example of a headland fortified in mediaeval times, 

 Dunlecky. This consisted of a long wall, with loopholes and gate. 

 Access to the parapet was given by a small oblong tower, which 

 probably contained ladders.^ The place seems (like several other 



^ The photographs of Newtown and Muckinish are by Messrs. "W. Lawrence, 

 of Sackville-street, Dublin. 



^ " S. F." in the Dublin University Magazine, vol. xli., p. 89, compares it with 

 Coucy in Picardy. 



^ See Paper by Mr. George Hewson in the Journal of the Royal Historical and 

 Archseological Association of Ireland, 1879-82, p. 267. 



