466 Procerdings of the Eoj/al Irish Academii. 



10 feet wide ; only the south segment of the inner ring is well preserved, 5 feet 

 to 6 feet high, and capped with furze ; it is 12 feet thick, the garth 72 feet 

 across ; the north side is nearly levelled ; another block, under 4 feet long, lies 

 beside the fosse. 



The next earthwork (I) farther to the north is called " the mote of 

 Parkeenard " ; the outer ring is 9 feet thick, the fosse 10 feet wide, the garth 

 42 feet across ; the ring to the north-east is fairly perfect. 



There are two more featureless rings to either side of the stream gully of 

 Glounacroghera or " Hangman's Glen." 



Mr. Michael Duggan, who lives in Cush, below this ridge, says that many 

 have seen lights in the motes. He heard of finds of silver coins, some in a 

 fort and fourteen under the root of an old tree ; but the actual names of the 

 forts or any story of their inhabitants have been long forgotten, even before 

 the oldest people remember. Further up the slope are two low pillar-stones, 

 like a gate leading into nothing, called " Gatabawn." 



Along the road and to the north of it, still in Cush, is a neat mote 7 feet 

 high to the south (up hill), 16 feet to the north, its summit 54 feet across, its 

 fosse 15 feet wide and 4 feet deep, once fed by a spring of sweet water to the 

 south-west. 



I am not going to assert anything about this group. Similar clusters of 

 tumuh, pillars, house-rings, and cairns occur not infrequently. I will only 

 note of the conjoined forts that most of those which I have seen outside 

 Co. Limerick, in Tipperary, Clare, and Kerry, are unmistakably house-rings, 

 such, I may note, as those east of Killaloe (earth and stone), KilluUa (earth), 

 and Teernea (stone). Earely do more than two conjoin. Closely similar to 

 these last is the type in Co. Clare, with a ring-fort and a shield-like annexe, like 

 Ayleacotty, Creevaghmore, and Drumbaun.' The Cush rings may, perhaps, 

 be classed as " disc barrows " or " bowl barrows." Professor Boyd Dawkins 

 points out' one with a well-defined track " made by human feet circling 

 round the burial mound " ; inside was a low ring 75 feet across, another 

 ditch, and a slight mound encircled by oaken posts. The ditch was 

 paved with logs to make a processional way. In Co. Clare we have 

 two such low rings on George's Head, Kilkee, outside the great promontory 

 fort, but, though very close together, they are not conjoined, and may 

 only be hut-sites. The oft-quoted poem in the "Book of Lecan" lays 

 down small raths of the cloAde " for men of science and women and 



"' Supra, vol. xxvii, p. 379. Creevaghmore; vol. xxxii, plate iv, p. 379. Drumbaun and 

 Ayleacotty. 



- Proc. Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, vol. xviii. A. H. Allcroft's 

 " Earthwork of England," pp. 528-530. • 



