Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . thick and 8 feet high. It is 3 feet higher than the terrace and 12feet 6 inches high outside. Templemore-Kells (Ordnance Survey Map 17). In my former visits in 1894 and 1898 I failed to recognise in thehedge of hawthorns, brambles and modern walls round the church PREHISTORIC REMAINS IN BURREN 271 anything notable or ancient. The new maps, showing a circularfence, led me to revisit it, and I am able to add a plan of anothertypical example of a church in a ring-wall, like Glencolumbcille. The ruin1 is situated in a pleasing position, amon
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . thick and 8 feet high. It is 3 feet higher than the terrace and 12feet 6 inches high outside. Templemore-Kells (Ordnance Survey Map 17). In my former visits in 1894 and 1898 I failed to recognise in thehedge of hawthorns, brambles and modern walls round the church PREHISTORIC REMAINS IN BURREN 271 anything notable or ancient. The new maps, showing a circularfence, led me to revisit it, and I am able to add a plan of anothertypical example of a church in a ring-wall, like Glencolumbcille. The ruin1 is situated in a pleasing position, among rich fields,near a lake, with a view of the flank and cliffs of the GlasgeivnaghHill and Slievenaglasha, and Mullach, with its great rock terracesand grey dome. The approach is by an old lane way to the north-. Canons Island Abbey, Co. Clare east, and on that side the cashel is hardly traceable, being onlymarked by scattered bushes, small filling, and rebuilt modern ring measures 252 feet east and west, and 228 feet north andsouth over all; it is 8 to 10 feet thick, with filling of small fieldstones, and is 3 to 4 feet high. The foundation courses alone remainin parts on the inside, but outside to the north and north-west, theouter face is well preserved, in parts 5 feet high. It is of large Proc. B. I. Acad., ser. iii, vol. vi, view and note, plate viii, and p. 139. 272 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND blocks 3 to 4 feet high and many 5 feet long, with good masonryabove. Some large water-worn boulders, in situ, are embedded inthe-wall,1 and it is evident that before the great drainage works thefort was washed by the lake ; the garth being raised some 4 feethigher than the field. To the south and east (as we noted) the wallis entirely overthrown and a thick hedge of bramble
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