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where the rock bends up and makes the abrupt landward face 

 of the peninsula, a diy-stone wall has been built at the same 

 batter and backed by a mound. The eastern end of the 

 peninsula has been isolated by the sea; the earthwork still 

 appears on it (c). There are middens of limpets and other shells 

 with polished pebbles inside the entrance at the causeway 

 (a, b). Description, E.. S.A.I. , xxviii., p. 410. 



Cloonet te BtJiSrEATTr. 



223. Magh Adhair (34). Seems to be a true mote. It is a nearly 

 circular, flat-topped mound, the platform 100 feet across, and 

 a high fosse and outer ring surround it, and a sloping causeway 

 leads to the summit at the west side. A large caiim, 17 feet 

 high, lies at the foot of this on the bank of the stream. The 

 mote stands in a semicircular enclosui'e, with a natui'al amphi- 

 theatre of crags called Cragnakeeroge. A basin stone lies north 

 of the mound, and across the stream, about 140 feet away, is 

 a pillar, 6 feet 3 inches high and 2 feet 6 inches broad. This 

 place was used by the Dalcassians from the earliest times for 

 the inauguration of their chiefs. Description, E.S.A.I., xxi., 

 p. 462, 463, with view. Proc. E.I.A., ser. iii., toI. y., p. 55, 

 with plan. 



