174 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



continuous sheet of water could have reached from it to Eruly in historic 

 times. "Windele found the old legend still remembered, how a " king of the 

 Dandonians " and his army suffered from thirst, and his druid " shot a 

 sleagh," and where it pierced the ground the well of Curraheen, on the 

 north-west slope of the ridge (Slievereagh), broke out. 1 



Mr. Molony, of Hill House (to whose kindness and hospitality I am 

 indebted), tells me that, when digging a fence above the quarry on the west 

 slope, i layer of bones "f men and horses was found. Here John Windele, 

 in 1853 found " a limestone pillar, or daildn, 4 feet high and 13 inches thick, 



on tli Ige oia precipice." 1 Mr. Molony also tells me that lung ago a cave 



ined between the castle and the graveyard, and silver candlesticks 

 were said t<> have I n found, and long preserved by a Mr. Ryan. 



The railway cuts the group of fotts in two. Unfortunately, Windele's 

 untidy method of making notes on any loose bil of paper, and hardly ever 

 writing out a full account while his memorj was fresh, deprives his jottings 

 of mucb "f their value, and the Ordnance Survey Letters, as usual, ignore 

 them altogether. 



I take them from the north, southward: — (1) The northern mote is 8 feet 

 to 11 feel high, circular, flat, or slightly hollowed, on top, and 51 feet across. 



Boially towards the north, with hawthorns on the 



sheltered side to the south-east. The fosse is 12 feet wide and 2 feet to 



mil full of "naggers" (yellow iris), with a trace of an outer 



riii','. 10 feel wide and 2 feet high, to the smith-east. This, I presume, is 



long West," described as a mote "20 feet high," 

 with a deep fosse, 20 feet wide and 56 feet across the top, which is slightly 

 hollowed. It lies beside a little rivulet, in wet Gelds, now drained. (2) In the 

 same marsh, southward, is a curious platform fort and a ring-fort in Knocklong 



raland. The first consists of two rectangular platforms, in line, north and 

 high and G<j feet wide, within a fosse 12 feet wide, now 



Iv filled: the two divisions had hanks round the tops, and have a fosse 

 12 feel wide between. The northern is 70 feel loner, much levelled to the 

 north-west : the southern is 54 feet long. (3) At 63 feet to the south-west 

 is a mai i ring, 66 feet inside; the rampart is 6 feet thick and high, 



die fosse 12 feci wide and only 2 feel to 3 feel dee]., with an outer ring 3 feet 

 high and 6 feet thick. It was nearly concealed in tall meadowsweet, loose- 



J472 !>• -in.. in! H..11. L684 . ' ml Surrey, vol. xxv. p. 9; Windelo'a 

 plement," i, pp 3« is Chormaic, p. 93 



R. I. Acad.. Windelo'a "Supplement, i. pp. 526 530 Did the pillar 

 commemorate a battle ) cf. Da Deiya's Hostel (Itev. Cult., xvii. p. 169), " i pillar atone 

 for a rout, a cairn for a destine 



