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The oak beams (No. 2, section 2) were evidently sawn, not cut with a 

 chopping instrument. Through them, at about nine inches apart, there 

 were pairs of dowels that were used to fasten the basket flooring to 

 them ; these beams seem to run nearly N. and S. 



In the basket flooring, at about every nine inches, were poles, 2*5 

 inches thick, through which the previously mentioned dowels went, and 

 fastened the flooring to the beams. These poles seemed to be ash sap- 

 lings, while the rest of the flooring was made of hazel rods. Below the 

 beams there was peat, but it could not be examined on account of the 

 quantity of water that rushed into the working. This Crannoge seems 

 to have been divided into huts or apartments, as part of a row of ash 

 piles, three inches in diameter, was observed. 



No stone or other implements were found, nor was it likely that there 

 should, as only a small opening was made, and only a few feet of the 

 basket flooring uncovered. To find them, the Crannoge ought to be 

 carefully explored during the summer, when the water would allow the 

 bed lying on the flooring to be cleared out. 



SKETCH OF BALLIN LOUGH, LOOKING N. B. 

 Fig. 2. 



The island in the middle distance is No. 1, or North Island; that on the left hand, over 

 which there are birds, is No. 2, or West Island ; the island on the shore of which a boat is 

 seen, is No, 3, or Middle Island ; and a small portion of No. 4, or East Island, is seen at the 

 right-hand margin of the sketch. 



No. 4, or East Island. — This lies about 300 feet from the' south 

 shore, and is of an irregular pear shape, being about sixty-seven yards in 

 length from north to south, and fifty yards in its widest part from east to 



