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Fig. 2. — Eallykinvarga. 



88. CAHEiiMrNAifE (9), " Cathair mionain," 1577, Annals of the Four 



Masters; " Carmanbeg," 1655, B.D., p. 191. A fairly perfect 

 ring wall, with steps and defaced gateway to east ; the gate had 

 four corner-posts and two lintels. 



89. Caheexahertagh (9), Carroghflaherty in Caherminane, grant 



1585. A greatly defaced fort, with large " cyclopean " 

 masonry, an oval hut-site, &c. ; not far away is a dolmen, 

 figured by Borlase, vol i., p. 69. Described, E. S.A.I, xxvir., 

 p. 125. 



90. Cahek BALiTSHANisrY (9). A large defaced ring, 132 by 137 feet 



diameter, on a knoll. It had a gate to the east, and steps 

 leading down from it, and traces of souten-ains. Ibid, p. 126. 



91. Caheeemon (16), Caheredmond, in Ballykeady (Ballykeale), 



1655. Now levelled to the field. Button in his Statistical 

 Smwey, Appendix, p. 12, 1819, describes its walls as covered 

 with orpine, and names it Cahiromond. Petrie calls it " a fine 

 remain."^ 



1 " Military Architecture of Ireland," MSS. R.I.A. 



