2 50 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



of the old wall was retained in the fence ; it is of fine large hlocks, 3 feet high 

 and long : it varies in thickness from 6 feet to 9 feet, according to the contour 

 of the rock. Slabs were set on edge inside the wall. 



House-Sites. — It is very hard to examine a district consisting of so many 

 hollows, ridges, and valleys : but, helped by Mr. Toole, and with the aid of 

 Dr. George Fogerty and Mr.Praeger, I may hope, after two days' hard work and 

 examination of the slopes with a glass from every salient point, that little of 

 importance has been passed by. 



(a) At Drunmasharganbeg, on the west bank of the little stream falling into 

 Ooghnascaddaun, Mr. Praeger called my attention to a nearly levelled house. 

 It abuts against a rock on the west side and is 25 feet across either way. 

 There are at least four cells lined with large set stones, with walls 3 feet to 

 6 feet thick. The south-western room is oblong, the south-eastern buried in 

 debris ; the northern and eastern cells are circular, about 7 feet across 

 inside. (Plate YIII.) 



(6) In Ballyheer, about 100 feet from the north shore of Loughnamucka, 

 in the long valley from Lough Allen to Ooghnamucka Bay, and at the 

 foot of the ridge ending in Dromore Head, is a house-ring. It is about 40 feet 

 over all, a couple of feet high, and heaped with stones, a well-preserved wall 

 of earth, and large blocks 6 feet thick. In this valley the outcrops of a 

 large and remarkable quartz vein give life-like representations of large white 

 animals sitting up. 



(c) Almost due south from the northern Allnerehoo cliff, opposite the bay 

 between it and Dromore Head, is a five-celled house. Heaped with debris and 

 partly rebuilt as a fold, the foundations are still preserved, and the northern cells 

 remain up to the spring of the corbelled roofs. It is about 30 feet long north and 

 south by 17 feet wide, and has five polygonal cells, the central being 8 feet by 

 12 feet inside. The two northern cells are so small (4 feet by 3 feet and 4 feet 

 by 6 feet) that they were possibly store-rooms. The larger of them and the 

 two others (6 feet and 7 feet long by 5 feet wide) were perhaps sleeping-rooms. 

 It is remarkable to find this house unsheltered to the west, with a long ridge 

 to concentrate the wind upon it ; but similar choice of sites is found in Clare 

 Island and Bofin. (Plate YIII. | 



(d) It is hard to define the position of the next by the existing maps. Behind 

 the most northern of the houses to the north-west of Portadoon rises a bold knoll, 

 a reputed sidh or fairy fort, but with no trace of walls or earthworks to mark it 

 as a dun, though a most suitable position for such. On its northern flank is a 

 lower platform over marshy fields, once probably a lake. A path across which 

 some large slabs are set leads between the knolls to the northern summit. 

 There a curved row of large blocks, chiefly of snowy quartz, which with a 



