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16.— The next most characteristic group lies around the little village of 

 Bodyke. We find no early record of the village ; but its name is evidently 

 " Both dTeige," Teige's hut. The townlands treated by us comprise Clonmoher 

 and the Coolreaghs, with outlying forts at Ballydonohan and Caherhurley. 

 There are, however, many earthen forts that naturally belong to the group ; for 

 instance, in Drumod (or, as it is better known, Knocklare and Knockbrack) are 

 four raths and Knockbrack fort, Lurragabawn, a fine liss with a fosse and two 

 rings, the inner nearly perpendicular, and 6 to 8 feet high ; Kilderry, a 

 large oval fort, about 250 by 200 feet, in Newtown ;^ Tondrislee, an 

 old low-banked enclosure, pear-shaped in plan, with a shallow fosse on a 

 slope; it is 93 feet across. There are also three more circular lisses in 

 Coolreagh, three in Lisbarreen, and one in Coolready (St. Catherine's), 

 usually steep banks without fosses, with garths over 100 feet across; one, 

 south of Bodyke, being terraced and on a slope. There is a somewhat larger 

 ring on the AnnaghmuUivan Kiver, opposite Caherhurley, and four others 

 beside the Caher ; the terraced graveyard, a probable church site, called 

 Killanna in Parknakilla, and a ring-fort on the ridges flanking the valley in 

 which Ballydonohan Caher lies. Of these places we find mention in the 

 early rental of Cluana mothair, the Culriabaghs, and Caitir Urthaile. The 

 Mac ISTamaras, and in later days a branch of the O'Briens, held Coolreagh ; 

 but, from the time of the Commonwealth, most of these lands came into 

 possession of the O'Callaghans, a family transplanted from Duhallow in Cork. 



Clonmoher. — Cluanamothair, the latter term being frequently used in 

 Clare for a fort. The long, green ridge overlooks a boggy coimtry from which 

 forts and other antiquities are absent, the valley of the river Graney and its 

 affluents. There are two fine forts on the ridge, each on a rounded, rising 

 ground. 



LUGALASSA, the more northern, is of the lower mote type, like Lisnaleagaun, 

 near Kilkee, its platform being 8 feet above the field, and 11 or 12 feet above 

 the fosse. The summit measures 139 feet east and west, 132 feet north and 

 south. The mound was faced with stonework, and probably a ring-wall of 

 dry stone girt the summit, as the base of the inner face of large blocks is 

 traceable. The inner ring at the base is about 14 feet wide ; the shallow 

 fosse 21 feet to 25 feet wide ; the outer ring 14 feet to 16 feet wide, and 

 5 or 6 feet high. In all it measures 267 feet north and south, and 240 feet 



' Newtown was part of Ballymacdonnell, as shown in a map of Thomas Neville, 1764, made for 

 Donat O'Callaghan. 



