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the south ; 66 feet to the east; 51 feet to the west; and 36 feet at the 

 entrance, but wherever uninjured along the top it is uniformly 9 feet wide. It 

 rises 22 feet over the fosse, and 10 feet to 14 feet over the garth. The latter 

 is slightly hollowed, and is about 4 feet higher than the field outside. I have 

 noted this saucer-like garth in the fort to the east of Liscockaboe near Bodyke, 

 but it is very unusual. There are no visible foundations or pits ; a few blocks 

 of stone lie around ; there were heaps of stones in 1695-7. The garth is 

 102 feet in diameter north and south, by 87 feet east and west. The whole 

 space measured over the fosse is 250 feet either way. The circuit is 650 feet, 

 625 feet round the foot of the bank, and about 380 feet round the top. The 

 traces of the outer ring to the east and south are 25 feet to 27 feet wide ; the 

 hill-slope falls away from them to the low fields at the river. The plan and 

 sections give all other needful information. The stones at the modern 

 entrance and steps are cut with modern initials, crosses, and scorings ; some of 

 these were evidently reported to Windele as ogmic inscriptions. There are no 

 traces of other forts or hut-rings on the plateau, but probably a " town " of 

 wattled and wooden houses was crowded there. 



The outlook is very pleasing, up the lake, past Thountinna and Craglea, 

 the great pink and brown hills, with their green and wooded lower slopes on 

 every side, while down the Shannon we look to 'the fiashing weirs at the 

 houses and low cathedral tower of Killaloe. 



As I have noted, no trace or true tradition of the site of Kincora remains ; 

 the modern house has usurped its place in the " traditions " of drivers, 

 fishermen, and tourists. 



The Leinstekmen's Grates, Coolbaun. 



Though lying in Tipperary, certain remains are locally and traditionally 

 so closely bound up with the Clare forts that I may note them here, for 

 they were equally in the ancient Thomond and the diocese, that preserves 

 its former limits. Driving up the hills towards Thountinna, we pass a very 

 interesting double fort, Lisnagry, fort of the herds. It has two circular 

 enclosures 6 feet to 8 feet high, the northern, earthen with stone facing ; 

 the southern, mainly a diy-stone ring-wall within a fosse 3 feet or 4 feet 

 deep and 12 feet wide, shaped like a figure 8 in plan. The combination of 

 an earth and stone fort recalls Creevaghmore and the Earl's house described 

 below. The whole is about 230 feet long, or 350 feet over all, the larger 

 fort being roughly 150 feet north and south and 127 feet east and west, and 

 it is in Curraghville townland.' 



' Perhaps it was connected with the bili or veiieiated tree of the townland name. 



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