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nearly unroofed ; the next reach has lintels, the outer only 3 feet 6 inches 

 long, and is nearly filled ; the sides incline, and it runs southward. The wall 

 is 21 feet thick; and 15 feet beyond it is another fort of earth on the slope of 

 the hill. It is of irregular outline, evidently adapted to cling more closely to 

 its "citadel"; its fosse is from 5 to 6 feet deep in parts, and rarely more than 

 3 or 4 feet deeper than the field. It is 12 feet wide, and most filled to the 

 east and south; the outer ring is low, and is 12 feet thick. The inner ring 

 and its slope are from 18 to 21 feet thick, rising 6 feet 6 inches above the 

 fosse to the north, and 10 to 11 feet to the south. It is nearly 4 feet high 

 inside to the north, 3 to the west, and rarely 2 feet elsewhere. The garth so 



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Fig, 1.— The group of Forts round Cahercalla, 





enclosed is irregular, somewhat straight to the north, and gently sloping 

 southward, being terraced up in that direction ; it measures 144 feet across 

 N. and S., and 141 feet E. and W. There are no foundations or signs of the 

 original entrance, which may have been a wooden bridge next the caher. 

 Both forts are planted thickly round the edges. An old woman assured us 

 that to her knowledge " the fairies were never heard in that fort," though the 

 bohereen (lane) ran past it ; so local belief is evidently dying out at Creevagh. 

 There are four other forts, of little general interest ; one near the river 

 Eine in Coogaun is about 250 by 300 feet over all, but much injured by a 

 house and enclosure. In Creevagh, to the east of the caher and its neighbour, 

 we find portion of an unmarked ring. 



