2 72 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



guard-room ; the first is 30 feet long outside, and 24 by 18 feet wide inside. 

 The next, to the west of the last, is 43 feet 6 inches long, and 19 feet wide, 

 with a large window, flanked by ambries, in the west end, and three loopholes 

 in the north wall towards the harbour : the south walls of both rooms are nearly 

 levelled : portions of two windows remain in the first, with a small loophol 

 commanding the sloping way to the north-east bastion, and a fireplace in th 

 east walL The partition wall has a door, and the north wall is blank ; there 

 seem to be traces of two doors and a window in the south wall of the west room. 

 Separated from it by a passage 6 feet 9 inches wide, is the west range, probably 

 a store — three gloomy rooms, each with a loophole in the west, and with great 

 fireplaces and chimneys : but the face next the court is nearly all broken, and 

 the end walls blank. Behind it a passage, 3 feet 6 inches wide, leads between 

 it and the outer western wall over the creek. In this rampart are opes 

 through which (doubtless by a crane) supplies could be raised from boats. 

 Behind this, to either side, is a bastion, with parallel sides. The northern is 

 27 feet long : between it and the large room is a smaller bastion, projecting 

 5 feet, to sweep the northern wall, and 15 feet long. The small south-western 

 bastion is 15 feet long, 7 feet 9 inches wide, with walls, as usual, 4 feet 9 

 inches to 5 feet thick. It, like the larger one opposite, has loopholes com- 

 manding the cove and southward. East from it, in the passage at the south 

 end of the stores, a semicircular turret projects from the outer wall The 

 latter at 20 feet from the store tends back, with a small house in the angle. 

 I did not find any garderobe in the ruin. The curtain wall runs straight from 

 the angle to the south-eastern bastion without any other features save the 

 narrow walk and loopholes along its summit. 



6. LXISHAEK. 



The island of Tni shark is so closely bound up with Bofin in history and by 

 nature that, although I was unable to visit it, I may give the results of the 

 study of others with what I was able to see from Bofin, and learn about its 

 remains. 1 The name is as yet unexplained, nor have I found any early record 

 to throw light on it. It appears in 1586 as Enisherke and Enisharke ; Boderick 

 O'Elaherty a century later calls it Inisark. The Ordnance Survey has adopted 

 the ugly, unnecessary, and cumbrous spelling, Tnishshark. One popular 



1 Ordnance Survey Letter-, loc. cil.. p. 485 : " I-ady Wilie, "'Ancient Legends," i, pp. 119, 132, 

 143: -Ancient Cures,'' ic, pp. 141, 151-4; and Dr. Browne, supra, Pruc., vol. iii, ser. ill., 

 pp. 359-365. Moran only enumerates the following remains on Inish Shark : — 1, Sione cross, 

 ]>eac Leo, to south-east of Leo's chapel ; 2, Teampull Leo, a primitive little chapel ; 3, Uaimh Leo 

 on the south shore where the saint meditated : 4, Tobar Leo in the cave ; and 5, Ciochan Leo, round 

 cyclopean hut. 



