Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . he cat of the earns. 2 The Baile mhic Droighnean of the 1390 Rental (Hardiman Deeds, I. Acad., vol. x.)and in a deed of 1611. 8 This is the view so recognizable in Dyncleys sketches of Scattery and Duna-groguc in 1680. NOTES ON CERTAIN PRIMITIVE REMAINS 117 being nearly levelled to the east. It is from 20 feet to 30 feet wide,being much spread. The actual rampart can rarely be disentangledfrom the debris, but is about 12 feet to 16 feet thick ; reaches of thefacing show that it was excellently built with a batter of 1 in
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . he cat of the earns. 2 The Baile mhic Droighnean of the 1390 Rental (Hardiman Deeds, I. Acad., vol. x.)and in a deed of 1611. 8 This is the view so recognizable in Dyncleys sketches of Scattery and Duna-groguc in 1680. NOTES ON CERTAIN PRIMITIVE REMAINS 117 being nearly levelled to the east. It is from 20 feet to 30 feet wide,being much spread. The actual rampart can rarely be disentangledfrom the debris, but is about 12 feet to 16 feet thick ; reaches of thefacing show that it was excellently built with a batter of 1 in masonry is unusual, the large blocks are separated by nearlyequivalent spaces of thin slabs, like a heap of bricks, the whole offair execution. Unfortunately it was too convenient a quarry, andthe neighbouring village, Roman Catholic church, and farm houseswere largely built out of its stonework. It measures about 165 feet,over all, as spread. The garth is 118 feet to 120 feet across. Theactual outer diameter is impossible to fix anywhere, but is about. Cahernagat and Carrowdotia 150 feet across. The interior is about 2 feet over the ridge to theeast, but 7 to 10 feet above the outer ground to the other points. There is a house ring at the east side, the walls 9 feet feet north and south, 21 feet east and west ; at its south end aretwo circular cells, 6 feet and 9 feet inside, 24 feet over all—they havenow collapsed. At 21 feet from the doorway of the large enclosureis an oval pit, another collapsed cell of a souterrain, 41 feet from thenorth segment, and 8 feet by 6 feet across. It is probably connectedby a passage 12 feet long (the farther opening hardly 2 feet square,with thin nag roofing) to a larger fallen cell, 13 feet long by 6 feetwide, whence another passage, 5 feet to 6 feet wide, runs to thesouth-east to a cell, the whole 18 feet long and fallen in. There isnothing else in the garth save some small groups of bramble andwillows. There is no discoverable tra
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