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Ceeevaghbeg (34).— Besides the faint traces of two small forts at the 

 Eine, there is another caher, thickly planted with hawthorns, near the great 

 fort. It has a wall greatly dilapidated, nearly circular outside, evidently 

 12 feet thick ; but the debris is heaped outside for 16 feet more ; the garth 

 is 78 feet across. It has a curious feature worth recording. The inner face 

 of the wall is nearly intact, and is built in short straight lengths about 

 40 feet long, forming a fairly regular hexagon. 



Passing up the road northward, we find close to it on the east side on high 

 ground a rath in good preservation. It is circular, girt by a fosse and two 

 steep rings, each thickly planted with hazels and hawthorns, and, on my 

 visits, sheeted with celandine and hyacinth. The outer ring is of earth, 



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12 feet thick and about 5 feet high, the fosse is 15 feet wide, and 3 or 4 feet 

 deep, and the inner ring 7 feet high over the fosse, and 8 to 10 feet thick, the 

 faces still partly revetted with stonework. The garth is level, 63 to 65 feet 

 across ; in the S.S.W. segment, we find a souterrain or " cave " much filled 

 in ; it is entered by a pit, 3 feet by 4 feet wide at the top, with sloping sides 

 of rather small stones, having a sort of rude cornice of longer stones under 

 the ends of the roof-slabs. The outer lintel is 5 feet 3 inches long by nearly 

 a foot square ; after four more lintels, the last 6 feet long, we find that the 

 passage is again open, and running north and south at right angles to the 

 last for 21 feet at this point ; there is a side recess to the east 4 feet wide. We 

 could not trace the main passage farther, as a modern fence crosses the garth, 

 and there is no trace beyond it. 



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