PAGAN ANTIQUITIES. 
A sketch of this gateway is annexed, as it would appear in its original state. On -each 
side of the entrance passage there is a niche—or, as masons would express it, a double 
reveal—the purpose of which must be left to conjceture. 
The circular apex contains within the outermost inclosure about 5J- acres, within the 
second about 4, within the third about 1, and within the cashel about The masonry of this 
great work is exactly similar to that of many other Irish caisiols, or cahirs. The stones, 
which are of the common grey schist of the district, are of polygonal forms, adjusted to fit 
each other, and wholly uncemented. It is quite evident that they have been in many parts 
squared with the hammer, but not chiseled, as Colonel Blacker supposed. This is most ap¬ 
parent in the angles, &c., of the entrance passage ; hut in the exterior face of the building the 
stones are much more rounded, or worn, at the edges, and indicate, from their state of decay, a 
very remote antiquity. 
In the centre of the area of the cashel there are remains of a small oblong building, 
measuring 16 feet 6 inches by 14 feet 3 inches. The walls, which are 2 feet thick, and, at 
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