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iiuicli of the domestic buildings had been taken to build the houses of 

 Manistev and Abbeyville and the mill and village. Until the vesting of 

 the remains of the once noble church and the Chaptcv House as an "ancient 

 monument " anyone could work his will on them. If this was true of a con- 

 secrated building, liow little mercy could one expect a pagan moiiunient to 

 be shown ? 



The outer ring is well preserved to the soutli and cast, and the outline 

 of the fosse within it can be traced all round. Jt is " 8-shapcd " in plan. 

 The ring rises from 4 to over G feet above the field, at which level it is 15 to 

 16 feet thick, being 8 feet to 10 feet tliick on top, with steep sides, probably 

 once stone-faced. The mounds are llat-topped. The southern parts are 

 intact, rising over the fosse for 10 to I'd feet. 



The whole work measures about 300 feet over all, east and west, and 

 180 feet north and south. The greatest depth is between 6 and 7 feet 

 below the field to the south-east. The fosse appears to be from 9 to 14 feet 

 wide in parts, up to 18 feet wide. The southern part is tilled for a depth of 

 feet to perhaps 5 feet. 



An old hollow way leads from it towards the ford, and is 4 to 5 feet deep 

 and 8 to 10 feet wide below. There are traces of enclosures between it and 

 the river. A field near the chapel is called Parknaree. 



Eathmore.— A small fifteenth-century peel tower, on a rising ground, 

 about a mile eastward, appears to have justified its name by being beside a 

 semicircular platform, over 6 feet high, on which the modern cottage stands 

 in tufted trees. This is evidently a fort, but quite defaced by its later uses. 

 There is a low, straight-sided earthwork south-east from the road near it. 

 Two other rather small circular mounds lie east from the Abbey beside the 

 rivei', while in a low-lying and at times Hooded reach, south from Abbeyville 

 House, I noticed, during the great autumn Hoods of 1918, a snuill, rounded 

 mound. Probably none of these belong to the 'Omiach. Its name clings to 

 Manister alone, and there is no tradition of any gathering at any of them. 

 Eathmore was the place where the archives of the unfortunate "Rebel Earl" 

 were taken by the English. The castle seems to have been held by his 

 tenant, Maurice Sheehan,^ 1584. 



Fort Elizabeth. — Another overgrown tumulus, similar to Sheenafinnoge, 

 lies between the last and Crouni, north of tlic main roaei. Mr. J. Grene 

 Barry was told that here "Queen Elizabeth was buried, with a golden sword 



1 Suprn, XXV, p. 176. Peyton's "Survey" of the Condscated Desmond's Estates, 

 p. 13 b. 



