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This Eing Forts. — The western, perhaps the dun of Conall Eaehluath, 

 repaired by King Brian 1002-1012, lies on the western brow, above the 

 wooded demesne of Kilballyowen and the O'Grady's residence. It may be 

 the earthwork attributed to Eogabal "on the west." It is crossed by a 

 fence, and much injured by cattle, being of red, friable earth. There is some 

 trace of a fosse, especially to the north, where it is 12 feet wide below, and 

 has a spring in a rock-cut tank filled with water-plants. It is high and steep 

 to the north, and is 125 feet across, north and south, and 108 feet east and 

 west. The ring is 12 feet thick, 10 feet high to the south, and 12 feet to the 

 north, its base 12 to 18 feet thick. The platform is 5 feet above the field, 

 and the whole about 177 feet over the fosse. 



The southern fort seems to have been largely of stone ; slight trace 

 remains beside a cottage on the south slope, near the ancient track, up the 

 middle of the ridge, where it joins the by-road called Bohernaskagh, " the way 

 of the thorn bushes," leading westward from the ancient fair green. 



There is also a curious well half way down the slope, south from 'Aine's 

 Cairn, cut in the rock, but with only a small flow, even in wet weather. 

 The rectangular cleavage of the rocks makes it very regular ; it is partly 

 fenced with large rocks torn out of the crag. 



The casdn or causeway is of large slabs, bridged over by ones of 

 considerable size. Mr. H. S. Crawford has illustrated and described it for 

 the Journal of the Boyal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. xlvii, p. 82. 



'Oenach Culi, Clogher (O. S. Map, No. 42). 



When I first noticed the unusual group of remains in the townlands of 

 Clogherbeg and Baheenamaddra, I saw that the place had been of ancient 

 note, and the name suggested 'Oenach Clochair. This, however, had been 

 located as near Monasteranenagh, and the number of " dogmatic equations " 

 published about Co. Limerick throw unusual difficulties in the way of 

 topographers. The whole question had to be reconsidered, and it was only 

 after I had got the evidence methodized that I ventured to assert a new 

 identification. 1 overlooked till later the fact that Mr. B. J. Lynch had 

 already suggested the same ;' but as he gives no reason for it, I will here give 

 the evidence, at some length, which led me to the same conclusion. 



'Oenach Clochair, or 'Oenach Culi, was one of the chief assembly places of 

 the Munster men, and the cemetery of the Dergthene, 2 as Cenn Febrat appears 

 to have been of the Ernai. Our predecessors followed O'Donovan in regarding 



1 Journal North Minister Arch. Sue, vol. ii, p. 10. 



2 "Tract on the Cemeteries " givou by Petrie in " llouud Towers." 



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