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thick with large face blocks and an entrance 3 feet wide to the north-east. 

 The interior is 15 feet across east and west. 



At the opposite side of the island, in Cloonamore, near Dunnahineena, not 

 far from the stream, and nearly opposite to Eoonduff, is another enclosure. 



(/) It is built against a rock on the western side in a shallow valley, and 

 was D-shaped in plan. It measures inside 21 feet north and south, and 

 11 feet 6 inches east and west, being entirely of stone, mostly removed. It 

 was, perhaps, a somewhat late fold, but its utilization of a cleft for a recess 

 suggests that it may have been an old residence. 



(g) Another hut, in equal dilapidation, abuts against the rock where a 

 little pass leads up from the large boggy hollow between the loughs of 

 Gowlanagower and Loughnagroovaun. It is 9 feet long east and west along 

 the rock, and 7 feet wide. The latter lake, a clear little tarn, full of Water 

 Lobelia, has, on the east shore, heaps of stones under the low cliff ; but if they 

 represent huts, no foundations are traceable. As large roots of bog deal and 

 oak are found in the bogs here, as on Clare Island, there was probably no 

 lack of timber for roofing the houses of stone and earth. 



Dungrania OE Dungrainne. — On the low west shore of the harbour near 

 Turlinabaud and facing Bosco's Castle and the signal tower rises the remnant 

 of a large table-like rock. It is nearly isolated, and is reputed to have been 

 occupied by a castle of Grania Uaile, who defended from it (as her ally, 

 " Bosco," did from the " Gun Rock " opposite) the approach to the port in 

 which she, Bosco, and perhaps Guarim kept their fleets. The foundations of 

 the castle were stated to remain on the platform in 1839. ' Now, all that I 

 saw belongs to a far earlier type, perhaps at the latest six or seven centuries 

 before the " great sea-amazon " of the West. 



The rock, exposed on its western flank to the whole force of the waves, is 

 being rapidly eaten away. A bank of shingle brings us to the foot of the 

 grassy eastern slope, which is easily scaled by a sheep track, over which we 

 see the slight remains of a stone revetment along the steep bank, little more 

 than the lower five or six courses remaining anywhere. The platform is 

 richly grassed, a favourite resort for sheep, like Dunallia and Dun-Ooghaniska 

 on Clare Island. It is about 50 feet high, from 12 feet to 36 feet wide, and 

 165 feet long; of course it was once far wider, to judge from the base, nearly 

 square, as indeed the old maps show it. The southern end is washed bare 

 by the waves for 30 feet from the edge. Then hut-sites occur with walls of 

 earth and stones. The first is of three conjoined cells, with walls 3 feet to 

 4 feet thick ; the western half is gone, the eastern adjoined the fort wall. The 



1 Ordnance Survey Letters, Mayo, vol. i, p. 484, " Crania's dun, from Grania Wael Ny Jlaley" ; 

 it was a castle, and still traceable. 



