. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. ..^.^. Plan of North side of Entrance and Sections of Wall, Caherconree Fort. the cliff; the remains are there, but it cannot have been more than 3 or4 feet thick. This gives to the rampart, as spread out in its presentruinous condition, the appearance of forming a regular arc of a ciicle, andmay have led to the mistakes originally made in describing it as a some time ago I received a sketch of the fort, from a gentleman,made after a second visit and drawn as a circle figured seven cliainsdiameter. The wall was built in on
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. ..^.^. Plan of North side of Entrance and Sections of Wall, Caherconree Fort. the cliff; the remains are there, but it cannot have been more than 3 or4 feet thick. This gives to the rampart, as spread out in its presentruinous condition, the appearance of forming a regular arc of a ciicle, andmay have led to the mistakes originally made in describing it as a some time ago I received a sketch of the fort, from a gentleman,made after a second visit and drawn as a circle figured seven cliainsdiameter. The wall was built in one thickness. The faces are formed withthe best of the stones se^ lengthwise across the xvall—that is, with theend outwards—and the interior was filled with an inferior class of may be seen in the photograph of the masonry of the rampart, where CAHERCONREE, COUNTV KEKKY. 15 a section of the parapet appears. This style of building was noticedby Professor Babington in Treceiri, and referred to by Dr. Christison ina paper in Arc/ucoloffia Camhrensis
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