Wkstropp— Z^wre Crot and the " Harps of Cliuy 



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a little stream, running northward; it is 6 feet to 10 feet wide, and only 

 cuts through the neck of the " 8-shaped " outer mound. The eastern ring is 

 an impenetrable thicket of sloes and brambles ; its platform is raised 5 feet 

 to 4 feet high ; the fosse is 2 feec deep, and 9 feet to 11 feet wide; its inner 

 mound was faced with dry stone like the south ring at Cooloughtragh. So 

 near as I could measure, it seems about 64 feet E. and W. The combined 

 rings are about 209 feet over all E. and W. 



A levelled cairn lies about 200 feet to the S.S.E. ; it had a cist, and was 



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Fig. 2. — Conjoined Rings, Baunteen. 



kerbed with blocks ; it was 20 feet to 25 feet across ; three of the kerb 

 blocks mark out a semicircle. It consisted of small held stones, chiefly 

 sandstone. The west end of the cist and the kerb blocks are of purple 

 conglomerate ; the first is 6 feet long N. and S., 2 feet thick, and 2 feet 

 8 inches high at present ; the other end, and the sides and covers, witli most 

 of the small stones, and the wall of the eastern ring, have been removed for 

 fences. Apart from the noble view of the " Harps " to the south, the high 

 position gives it a distant prospect over Barua to Slievereagh and the more 

 distant Seefin, behind Kiltiunan, in the Bealach Feabrat pass. To the north 

 we see Duutrileague Hill,' and, through gaps, the faint blue mountains of 

 Co. Clare and Tountinna over Loch Derg. 



I close these notes on some 80 earthworks, well aware tliat many of the 

 others of at least 2,150 forts in Co. Limerick are deserving of description. 

 Still I believe that all the places of legendary importance, and probably 

 examples of all the types of the central county of Munster, are included in 



' Supra, xxxiii, p. 477. 



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