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Proceedings of the Ro>ial Irish Academy. 



Mr. "W. Wakeman. who had visited the fort with O'Donovan in 1838, was 

 resting at Bebnullet, in 1886, after completing work in Sligo.^ Heaiing of 

 " lines of upright stones and an immense diy-stone wall," he recalled 

 his former visit, and went after forty-eight years again to Dimnamo. 

 Unfortunately his paper is almost confined to notes on the plan, which is 

 very inaccni-ate. He notes the lines of stones more to the west (south-west), 

 and shows a curved-walled fosse (really straight). The passage was 3 feet 



5 inches wide ; there were three bee-hive huts behind the wall, 9 feet long by 

 4 feet 6 inches wide. The rampart was 210 feet long,- 8 feet thick, and 

 in places 1 8 feet high (really 8 feet), with no sign of moi-tar. The fosse was 



6 inches (really 8 to 9 feet) deep and aboiit 14 feet wide. The abattis stones 

 were in four i-ows. The circular fort was 109 feet in diameter. 



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Fig. 2.— Diiuiiamo Fort, Tlie Mullel, Co. Havo. 



A, rampart: k, fosse; c, shalluw fos^e; i>, gateway; e, hut at gate; F, G, h, guardrooms; 



I, 3, hnts inside fort ; k, endosore. 



Dr. Charles Brown = (1894) notes that only the part of the wall " over- 

 hanging the sea on the south side " was perfect, the facing neatly fitted and 

 without mortar. Colonel Wood-Martin,- in 1894, gives a brief account, based 

 on TTakeman, and with his plan and view ; he says the fosse is " a foot deep." 



- For Col. Wood-Martin's " Eude Stone Monuments." 



- Steti about 120 feet : the figures got reversed. 



' Proc. B.I.A. Tol. iii., Ser. iii., p. 640 •' Eihnographj- of tie Mullet," &e. 

 * •' Pagan Ireland," p. 190. 



