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are not marked on the maps, being nearly levelled ; a third, westward, and at 

 the further end of the same field, near Caherbane, is cut by the road ; an old 

 lane ran through its fosse. Two other small cahers ; one, 69 ft. across the 

 garth and 81 ft. over all, has the stone posts of a gateway 4 ft. 6 in. wide and 

 facing the east ; the wall is 6 ft. thick and 4 ft. high. 



Oaherforia lies farther southward in the same field. It is a fairly large stone 

 fort, 162 ft. over all, the wall from 12 ft. to 15 ft. thick, and 7 ft. to 8 ft. high ; 

 the facing is destroyed. The gateway faced the south, its main lintel remains 

 being 6 ft. 10 in. x 22 in. x 8 in. There are foundations of late houses in the 



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garth, and a series of irregular " bauns " round the wall. The foundations of 

 an old -looking hut lie outside to the east, and the whole field is full of levelled 

 enclosures and house-foundations. The place was called Caheravory in a grant 

 of 1667. Other caher names, which I cannot definitely locate, are Caheroney 

 in Orlenmoyle, 1655, called Caherowny alias Cahereeuy in 1727 ; Caher- 

 marine in Orlenbeg, 1655, called " Cahermaryne, near Urlan Castle," iu the 

 grant of 1667, Chaghremonghan in Ballysallagh West, 1655, and Caherribane, 

 in a fiant of 1602, called Caherribane near Urlanmore in the Inquisition of 

 1621, and Cahirrobane in the Survey of 1675, it was probable in Carrowbane, 



