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legend shows a belief in the early fame of the place. The Down Survey 

 (Map 34) mentions the "castle and a rath " of Bulgideeu nan Doe, in 1655. 

 The earthwork, a shapely mote near the Roman Catholic church, is called 

 Eathbaun, which suggests, with the remains, that there was once a wall of 

 the local white limestone round its s.ummit. It is just inside Ballygrennan 

 townland. The mound is 18 feet high to the south-west, 22 feet to the 

 south, and 17 feet to the north. The top is slightly hollow, with a gravelike 

 mound to the north-west It measures 66 feet north and south, 96 feet east 

 and west. There are slight traces of a ring in a low mound 12 feet wide 

 round the edge. A slight hollow, perhaps the trace of a fosse, surrounds the 

 mote, and is 25 feet wide. 



Tankardstown (0. S. 40). 



The old Norman family of Tancard has given its name to more than one 

 townland. The subject of this note is not the place near Knocksouna, west 

 of Kilmallock, but to the north-east of that picturesqne little old town 

 towards Bruff. To the east of the road, which cut off an angle of field near 

 a little stream, is a very small house-ring; the most curious fact is that it 

 has been spared. In that lonely district, I found no one to explain, but it 

 was unmown and ungrazed, and may be an old burial-place. It is oval, 

 only 21 feet north and south and 24 feet east and west inside; its ring, 

 hardly a foot high inside, rises 4 feet over a fosse 3 feet deep and 6 feet 

 wide, the ring being of the same width. Similar small rings of earth are 

 not unknown in the other Munster counties. It and another larger but low 

 ring to the east of tlie road are not marked on the Ordnance Survey maps. 



DirNMOKKlSHEEN (0. S. 40). 



This lies in Goats' Island townland on the east of the same road, and is' 

 a gently sloped mound 7 feet to 9 feet high, 45 feet across the top and 

 86 feet over all, surrounded by a slight fosse-like hollow 15 feet wide. There 

 are some other forts round KilmaUock, and between it, Knockainey,. 

 and Knocklong, which 1 hope to describe in the last sections of this' 

 paper, now practically complete. I shall there study at more length the 

 remarkable "fairy forts" of Knockainey and their striking legends, ancient 

 and modern, along with the forts at Loch Gur. The other forts I shall 

 reserve for sections on the remains of eastern and central Co. Limerick. 

 I'hese will enable students to acquire at least a clear idea of the various 

 types of structures prevailing in the central county of Munster. 



