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6 feet, thick. The area is 63 feet across; the mote 170 yards round 

 the base. To the east is a bawn down the slope and girt with fosse 

 and mounds. A large early rath lies on the south ridge of the hill.^ 



388. Shanii) Lower (19). Site marked. 1583 Another C. is 

 situated near the foot of the hill to the north-west. It is square, 50 

 feet wide outside the walls, and 30 feet wide. " In which C. or peel 

 were five separate rooms or chambers and two ' stories ' ; all the roofs 

 entirely gone " (Des. E., 11). Fitzgerald gives a legend, similar to 

 that of Dido and the hide, as to how MacSheehy lost it (i., p. 365). 

 It is nearly levelled. 



DUNMOTLIN. 



389. DuNMOYLiN (19). ]S'ot marked. 1299 Dunmolyn held by 

 Raymond de Yalle (Wall) (C.S.P.I.). 1568 Wall, or Palltach,^ of Dun- 

 maoilin, fell in a raid in Kerry (A.F.M.). 1569 It surrendered to the 

 Crown. 1580 After the fall of Askeaton, Pelham slew Ulick, son of 

 TJlick Falltach, of Dunmaolin, who had been blind from his youth 

 (A.E.M.). 1581-3 IIugoralltach,or Wall, held the ''greatC. ina great 

 enclosure or balne " built for defence, with a stone wall, very ruinous, 

 a garden, water mill, and a little close in decay (Des. E., 68b). 1588 

 01. Stephenson^ was granted Don Melline, part of estate of Ullick de 

 Wall, alias the Falltach (Fi. 5242). 1600 The Falltachs were given 

 as hostages for the Sugan Earl to MacCarthy (Pac. Hib., i., p. 103; 

 Peyton, 93b ; Inq. Exch., 11). 1617* 01. Stephenson died at Dun 

 Moylin (Inq. Chan., 14b, 20b, 24b); confii'med to his son Eic. 

 (Pat. E., Inq. Chan., Car. I., 206, &c.). 1653 G. Aylmer paid £46 

 for hay for horses of the garrison atDoonmoylen (Acct. E., 8). 1655 

 The late estate of E. S. granted to S. F. Chamberlain (B.D. 22 ; C.S., 

 p. 85 ; D.S.B., 3). 1661 The loyalty of Marg. Stephenson, widow, of 

 Dromoylin,^ attested by her son Lt.-Gen. J. Barry (C.S.P.I., 1660-2). 

 1670 Confirmed to Sir T. Chamberlain (Act Sett.). 



390. MoNYMOYHiLL or GoRTADROMA (18). Marked in the Castle 

 quarter of Gortadroma, on the White Eiver. Sometimes called 

 "Moyreen" C. 1289 Ad. Fleming gave Crosdere and Moyreyne 



1 See plan of Castle, Plate XVIII, and R.S.A.I., vol. xxxiv., pp. 320-338. 



- Only for the Irish form "Faltach," one would suspect the "Walls " of being 

 Ui Mhailles, for in 1336 Tho. de Yalle held Crew Itmaille under Bishop Rupefort. 



3 For the Stephensons, see R. S.A.I. , vol. xxxiv., p. 129. 



* The Inquisitions, however, give divergent dates for his death. 



^ The editor wrongly identified it with Dromoland in Clare, despite the words 

 *'Co. Limerick." 



