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rampart is, perhaps, 15 feet or 16 feet high, while its inner and concentric 

 fellow must be some 2 feet or 3 feet higher. Between the two lies a trench 

 correspondingly deep ; the second or external trench, nearly 10 yards 

 wide, has been partly filled in. A feature peculiar to this lios — at least the 

 writer has not seen or heard of a second example — is the difference of level 

 in floor of the interior court. Probably it is to this peculiarity that the lios 

 owes its name. One half (the eastern) of the enclosed circular space is about 

 three feet higher than the other half, and the line of division is quite sharp 

 and straight. Windele, who appears to have been the only one to note the 

 peculiarity, states that the outer rampart (can he have meant the inner ?) is 

 called Boen. Another extraordinary feature is a well within the lios enclosure, 

 though latter crowns the hill-top. This well is not easy to find, as it lies in 

 bottom of the fosse between the ramparts on the east side. The basin was 

 apparently cut in the rock and was of great depth, though now it is partly 

 filled in. At date of my last visit (July, 1917), the well was quite dry, but 

 probably a clearing out of the basin would reveal a respectable water-supply. 

 The gateway of the lios appears to have been on the south side. A well, or 

 spring, within his house was a privilege of the Brughfer. On the townland 

 are, besides one holy, and another remarkable, well — a second rath, now half 

 demolished, soil. : — Lios Davon (Da, Bhan ?), a third rath, of which only a 

 segment of rampart and fosse remains, and the site, with traces, of a fourth. 



S.DD. Lios Ainihreigh and Lios Da, Bhan. 



Tobairin na Casea— "Little Easter-Well." A "pattern" was formerly 

 held here, but it was suppressed by the clergy, because of attendant drunken- 

 ness and faction-fighting. This is the well which now supplies water to 

 Carrigtohill village. 



Tobar Bo Finne — "White Cow's Well." This lies quite by the roadside, 

 near summit of Woodstock hill. The cow commemorated is, doubtless, some 

 legendary animal, perhaps the Bo Ban, of Ballynakilla [qd. vid.\ These 

 frequent references in place-names to the Bo Ban, Bo Riabhach, Capall 

 Caoch, Glas Gamhain, &c, suggest a new, promising, and spacious field of 

 inquiry for the scientific folklorist. 



Banta Gearra — "Short Fields" ; three fields, now amalgamated. 



Tobairin a' Chapaill — " The Horse's Little Well." 



Pairc na Glaise, Pairc an Airgid, Pairc Liath, Pairc an 'Aird, r;iirc a 

 Phon, Pairc a Pais, and Pairc a Tobair— Field "of the Stream," "of the 

 Money (hidden treasure)," "of the Grey Surface," "of the Height," "of the 

 Pond," "of the Pace Meeting," and "of the Well " respectively. The last- 

 named field is on the hill- top. beside the great lios, but it has no well now. 



Mointean — " Little Bog." 



