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9 feet thick. It recalls the hermit's " tower " of sods and stones, with walls 



11 feet thick, broken by King Dathi with such fatal results to himself, when 

 the lightning slew him in C4aul at the beginniug of the fifth century. The 

 second hut adjoins the west of the Tower, and is 15 feet inside, and its wall 

 6 feet thick. The conjoined huts are 50 feet east and west by 30 feet north 

 and south. Half of the annexe has fallen. To the west of the fort, outside 

 the rampart, and evidently defending the approach, we find a glacis, 14 feet 

 to 15 feet long, sloping steeply to a fosse, now barely 4 feet deep and 9 feet 

 wide. A portion of the outer ring, 4 feet thick, remains. The whole must 

 soon be washed away like the Dugort duns, as great waves run up its low 

 rocks at all times of storm. 



Dunacueeogh, Achillbeg. — It lies on a headland in a cove near the last. 

 It is called Doonagurroge on the new maps, but locally Dunacnrrogh. Outside 

 its fosse, 54 feet to the east, is a double hut, with walls 6 feet to 7 feet thick, 

 and two circular cells, the eastern 15 feet, the western 12 feet inside. The 

 fort had an outer ring, now embodied in a fence, a fosse 4 feet deep and 



12 feet wide with a gangway 6 feet wide, at 18 feet from the south cliff and 

 12 feet from the north. Another fosse, nearly filled by its bank, lies 21 feet 

 westward. It was probably 9 feet wide. At 54 feet westward from the last 

 we reach the level platform, defended by an unusual dry-stone wall, projecting 

 with an angle to flank the entrance, and so presumably late. It is 6 feet 

 thick, with a slab entrance 6 feet wide ; thence a low bank of earth and stones 

 fences the platform, 27 feet wide at the gate, 39 feet in the middle, and 

 48 feet long east and west. 



Bai of Dooklnelly. — The only ring-fort in Achill calling for notice is the 

 Cathair of Slievemore. In 1888, when the plan published by Col. Wood- 

 Martin was made, its wall was 4 feet to 5 feet high. Now nearly all 

 the stonework has been removed. So recently has this been done that the 

 edges of the soil against the wall are still bare, sharp, and upright, the fort 

 being a now well-marked oval shallow ditch, 15 feet to 15 feet 9 inches wide, 

 and 18 inches deep, from which the very foundations are removed. It enclosed 

 a space 39 feet north and south to 45 feet east and west. A gate-lintel, 6 feet 

 6 inches long, 28 inches wide, and 10 inches thick, lies to the east. There 

 were two old semicircular enclosures beside the gate (formerly traceable) to 

 the south in 1888. It has been destroyed for road material, though stones 

 are over-abundant. 



The Dun of Oileaeh in the Mullet has vanished. It is supposed to have 

 been on the circular hillock of Elly, south from Binghamstown, on Blacksod 

 Bay, still called An Cathair ; locally, " Anaar." There are some small ring- 

 forts between the Bay and Dundonnell — perhaps half a dozen — calling for 



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