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narrow, thick flags [set fig. 9. PL XLYI. It was entered from the church 

 enclosure by a doorway at its south end, about three feet high, and two 

 and a-half feet wide. This, apparently, was a chamber for the door- 

 keeper; however, it is locally called " The prison. " It is similar in 

 construction to the wall chambers in the stoneforts [cahers and doons] 

 in other parts of Ireland.* 



No. 9 (PL XLV.). The south-west doorway into the cashel, which 

 was about two and a-half feet wide. 



No. 10 (PL XLV.). The site of a structure about fifteen feet square, 

 that was built between the lake and the south-east doorway in the 

 cashel. It probably was a clochaun. 



No. 11 (PL XLV.). The south-west doorway into the cashel, which 

 seems to have been about three feet wide. This, and all the other door- 

 ways into the cashel are said to have been through the wall, to have 

 been about three and a-half feet high, and originally covered with flags. 

 If this is a true tradition, all persons going into or coming out of the 

 cashel must have crawled on their hands and knees. That this is not 

 improbable seems likely, as on the islands of Aran the doorways into a 

 few cashels, which are still undestroyed, are about of similar dimensions, 



No. 12 (PL XLV.). A rectangular church, called on the Ordnance 

 Map, "The Abbey ;" this is supposed to have been erected by St. Fechin 

 in the seventh century. Its walls are built in courses, not grouted, as 

 those of the churches on the Isles of Aran ; but it has an Egyptian door- 

 way, sloping from the bottom upwards, and covered at top by a single 

 flag, about six inches thick. 



No. XIII. The site of a structure about thirteen feet long by twenty- 

 one feet wide. It was situated alongside the south-east doorway 

 through the outer enclosure wall, and contiguous to the previously- 

 mentioned south coose. 



Caeved ajcd Sctjlpttjbed Stones. 



Those that have been left on the island consist principally of crosses, 

 all of which are more or less dilapidated. At the landing place on the 

 east of the island is a very perfect cross, of which fig. 1, PL XLIX., is a 

 sketch. This is the most uninjured cross on the island. 



Near the centre of the island, at a holy well (the water from which 

 is said to cure colic and all such complaints), is a handsome cross, of 

 which fig. 2, PL XLIX., is a sketch. This cross is symmetrical, while 

 first mentioned is not, as will be seen by the sketch [fig. No. 1]. 



In the cashel, partly broken, was found a cross somewhat similar to 

 that at the east of the island [fig. 1]. This was taken and placed 



* In the county of Kerry, where cahers or stone forts are common, these wall 

 chambers will be found ; nevertheless, these are not confined to that county, for in the 

 stony parts of Galway and Mayo, in which localities stone forts had to be built, they 

 have also been observed ; however, in these counties the typical forts are of clay, in which 

 are derc-talamhs, or earth caves. 



