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this idea, it may be mentioned that an old fisherman, who was met with 

 at the ruins, appeared to say he remembered them so joined before the 

 passage was broken down.* 



No. 4 (PI. LXV. and Fig. 5, PI. XLVIL). A detached ruin about 

 nine t feet square apparently an Oileac (or stone building), built with flat 

 stones, except the doorway, which was formed of large flags pitched on 

 end. This structure is now so much dilapidated that nothing more can 

 be learned about it. 



No. 5 (PL XLV. and Figs. 6, 7, and 8, PL XLVIIL). A rectangular 

 clochaun, seven feet wide [north and south], by eight feet long, with walls 

 about five feet thick. This building also has only one aperture into it — 

 a doorway in the east wall. The doorway is peculiar, as it narrows from 

 three feet wide on the outside of the wall, to one and three-quarters 

 feet wide at the floor, and one and a half feet wide at the top, on the 

 inside of the wall. The outside of this clochaun is in a similar deplorable 

 condition to that of the clochaun just now described ; fortunately, 

 however, the interior has been spared by the barbarians who have ruined 

 the rest of the settlement, and displays a beautifully finished chamber, 

 in good proportions, coved in on all sides from the floor to the roof, 

 a height of over nine feet, the apex being covered by three flags placed 

 in steps, as represented in Fig. No. 7, which is a sectional view of the 

 interior of this building. The sketch does not show the full beauty of 

 the building, as its finish was similar to that of many of the interiors 

 of the clochauns in the Co. Kerry, each stone fitting into or lying evenly 

 on its fellow, and all joints being so close that a knife could scarcely be 

 inserted between the stones. Moreover, all the corners are symmetrical, 

 and curve evenly from the floor to the apex of the roof. This structure, 

 although its west wall apparently was partly in the wall of the cashel, 

 yet had no passage into it, the entrance, as before mentioned, being 

 from the east. The doorway was about three feet high, and its lintel, 

 on the inside, ought to be mentioned, as it is over six feet long ; that 

 length being exposed, while the rest of it is concealed in the north wall. 



No. 6. (PI. XLV.) A doorway into the cashel. This, as previously 

 mentioned, seems to have been joined by a passage to one of the clo- 

 chauns (No. III.). 



No. 7. (PL XLV.) A rectangular chamber, nine feet long by four 

 and a half feet wide. It is in, and extends nearly across, the thickness 

 of the cashel wall. It appears to have been about four feet high, and 

 was covered by large flags. It was entered from the cashel by a door- 

 way two and a half feet high by three feet wide. 



No. 8. (PL XLV.) A rectangular chamber extending along in the in- 

 terior -of the wall of the cashel, and adjoining the south-west gateway. It 

 is about thirty-two feet long, by four feet wide at the bottom, and coving 

 into three feet wide at the top of the walls ; the roof being formed of long, 



* The man only partially understood English, and I, unfortunately, knew very littlo 

 Irish. 



