444 Proceedings of tJie Royal Irish Academy. 



TTJLLA LOWEE. 



Ogojoj-jloe (29 forts). 



214. Caher or Islaj!^d Cahee (29), whence King Conor na Cathrach, 



1080-1120, was named, some state, from his having built the 

 caher. " Caherballymolony, cdias Island Caher, or Inishmahon 

 in Togonela," 1655, B.D., p. 43, 1675, p. 13. 



215. Caherderige (perhaps the last) is named in a grant of Teige 



O'Grrady, 1585. xv. Eeport of Deputy Keeper of the Eecords, 

 Ireland. 



216. Caherdavine lies on the borders of this Barony in the Liberties- 



of Limerick. Some nearly levelled cahers remain near it. 



The forts in the other parishes of Tnlla Lower are thus divided. 

 KiUui-an 12, Clonlea 21, Kilseily 13, O'Brien's Bridge 30, Kil- 

 tinanlea 8, Killokennedy 19, Killaloe 30; except the Caher of 

 Kincora, no name of a caher is recorded. 



OTHEE NOTEWOETKT EOETS. 



KllLAlOE. 



217. KiNCOEA (45), the well known residence of King Brian, 990-1014, 



had stone enclosures.^ Is'o trace remains, 



218. GruiANAN Lachtna (36). A fort of earth and stones in it is a long 



oval heap of stones, 80 feet by 50 feet, surrounded by a cii'cular 

 earthwork of two rings and a fosse much defaced, measuring 

 134 feet to 116 feet across the fort, the fosse being 17 feet 

 wide. It was made by Lachtna, King of Thomond, circa 840. 

 Description, E.S.A.I., xxin., p. 191. 



219. Bealboeuma (36), locally Balboru fort. Kennedy and Mahon, 



Kings of Thomond, probably made this fort, circa 950-70, as 

 Mahon is called "of Boruma" (but perhaps from that ford) 

 in the ""Wars of the Gaedhil with the Gaill." King Brian took 

 his well-known appellation from it. It is a large earthen ring 

 fort, 380 feet round the top, and 650 feet at the base, with a 

 high earthwork and a fosse at the end of a long spur where the 

 Shannon leaves Lough Derg. The entrance is to the north. 

 Description, E.S.A.I., xxii., p. 193. 



^ " The timber and stones " were thrown into the Eiver, 1118. 



