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above the floor of the cell. No appliances for hanging doors were ob- 

 served ; but perhaps the inhabitants used rush or straw mats, similar to 

 those in use at the present time in the islands of Gorrumna and Letter- 

 mullen, on the north of Galway Bay. 



As the late Doctor Petrie, in his " Pound Towers of Ireland," when 

 describing Cloghaun-a-carriaga (which is still the most perfect Cloghaun 

 on the island) has explained how the Cloghauns are roofed, I need not 

 go farther into details. I vrould remark, however, that this Cloghaun 

 has two doorways — a fact which that eminent antiquarian seems to have 

 overlooked. 



The elevation of none of the Cnocans could be given, on account of 

 the dilapidated condition in which they now are ; but much more might 

 be learned about them, if careful excavations were made around them ; 

 as, for instance, those numbered 5, 8, and 29. 



Ckagballywee (Anglice, the Yellow Tillage of the Eock). — This lies 

 on the S. W. slope of Inishmaan (couuty of Galway, Sheet 119), the Middle 

 Island of Aran, about half a mile S. "W. of Doon-Connor. Here the sites 

 of thirteen Cnocans and Cloghauns were observed, and a small stone fort, 

 about 60 feet in diameter. Of the Cnocans and Cloghauns only two 

 were rectangular ; all the rest were circular. Only one now rises more 

 than three feet above the foundation, and that is marked on the Ord- 

 nance Map, and called Cragbally wee : of this only half remains, but what 

 still exists shows a good example of a circular Cloghaun (see Plate VI., 

 figs, m and n). Every particle of the eastern half has been taken away, 

 even to the very foundation, and has been used to build two wing walls 

 to form a shelter for cattle. 



Ointighs with Kitchen-Middens. On Inishmaan there are Oin- 

 tighs, close to which are kitchen-middens ; these seem to be rather 

 modern, as in them are found coins and brass pins. These heaps are 

 principally formed of the bonnet shell and periwinkle, with occasionally 

 those of the mussel and scollop, along with bones of the cow, sheep, and 

 goose. 



One of these Ointigh, marked on the Ordnance Map, and called 

 Bally linagha an, lies about 200 yards "N. "W. of the boreen that leads 

 from Sandhead Lough to the hamlet called Moher. Immediately east 

 of this ruin is an underground chamber ; and on the north is a kitchen 

 midden, 12 yards long, by 9 yards wide, and 3 feet high ; in this the 

 brass pin No. 1 was found. 



West of the ruin called Templesaghtmaree (which to me appear 

 more like the ruins of a house than of a church, as it is divided into three 

 chambers, the centre one of which is a mere passage), there is a large 

 kitchen-midden, in which brass pins are said to have been found, but 

 none of these were forthcoming when I was on the island. 



Two hundred yards due north of Doon-Connor there is an Ointigh, 

 with a kitchen-midden attached. In this the brass pin rTo. 2 was found ; 

 and with it a token, a little larger than a farthing ; on one side of this coin 

 Avas ''Wilson op Dublin," over a figure of St. George and the Dragon, and 

 under the figure was the date 1672 ; on thereversewas " One Halfpenny," 



