Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . ing the outer enclosures, which are hard tomeasure, being covered with bushes. The huts are so covered withgrass as to be now hardly distinguishable. The waU of the outerenclosure (or bawn) to the north and east of the rock is, as a rule,6 feet thick, of large blocks, usually 5 to 6 feet, one 8 feet 3 incheslong and 2 to 3 feet high and thick. It is 61 feet from the innerfort to the north, running to what may be an older loop to the east,which turns back to the foot of the rock in fine with the south jamb ^ I only know of this style of b
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . ing the outer enclosures, which are hard tomeasure, being covered with bushes. The huts are so covered withgrass as to be now hardly distinguishable. The waU of the outerenclosure (or bawn) to the north and east of the rock is, as a rule,6 feet thick, of large blocks, usually 5 to 6 feet, one 8 feet 3 incheslong and 2 to 3 feet high and thick. It is 61 feet from the innerfort to the north, running to what may be an older loop to the east,which turns back to the foot of the rock in fine with the south jamb ^ I only know of this style of building elsewhere in a curious ring-wall atCarrahan in eastern Co. Clare. See Proc. B. I. Acad., vol. xxxii, p. Journal, vol. xxvi, p. 152 ; vol. xxix, p. 383; vol. xliii, p. 254. 270 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND of the gateway, being there 63 feet out from the citadel waU. Themain wall is 6 feet 2 inches thick, the terrace 2 feet 6 inchesmore; the whole in parts 10 feet, and at the gate 11 feet 6 inches *!B.\!ili ^ffi^mr^^^ \ \ 1. Cashlan Gar 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 ruin^ 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 MuHach, with its great rock terracesand grey dome. The approach is by an old lane way to the north-
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