Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . ular in form, withdome-shaped roofs, and walls of great thickness, which were built with-out mortar. They were called by the Irish clochans. When used forsolitary retirement by hermits or anchorites they were called carcair or 1 Archseolog. Scot. vol. ii. p. 54. - Prehistoric Annals, vol. i. p. 106. ^ Prehistoric Annals, vol. i. p 109. Ancient Forests. 39 prison cells. Examples of these ancient houses are still frequently to bemet with along the remote coasts, and on the islands, of the western andsout
Old Glasgow: the place and the people, from the Roman occupation to the eighteenth century . ular in form, withdome-shaped roofs, and walls of great thickness, which were built with-out mortar. They were called by the Irish clochans. When used forsolitary retirement by hermits or anchorites they were called carcair or 1 Archseolog. Scot. vol. ii. p. 54. - Prehistoric Annals, vol. i. p. 106. ^ Prehistoric Annals, vol. i. p 109. Ancient Forests. 39 prison cells. Examples of these ancient houses are still frequently to bemet with along the remote coasts, and on the islands, of the western andsouth-western parts of Ireland; and in Scotland the bothans or bee-hivehouses of Lewis and Harris, which are occupied to the present day asthe summer sheilings of the Hebrideans, are of the same cut represents one of these interesting structures at Aird in form it is almost identical with one in Ireland described by Dr. Petrie,and of which he gives a drawing in his work on the Round Towers. Itis—or was when Dr. Petrie sketched it—situated on the north side of the. great island of Aran in the Bay of Galway, and was known by thepeasantry as the Clochan-na-Carraige, or the stone house of the Petrie ascribes it to a period before the introduction of Christianity,vvhen the use of lime was unknown.^ There is every reason to believe that in the time of Kentigern, andeven in times far more remote, the country around what is now Glasgow,and, indeed, the whole face of Scotland, was covered with immenseforests, chiefly of oak; and it is interesting to note that in the oldest ofthe canoes dug up from under the streets of Glasgow, we possess portionsof the wood grown in these ancient forests, not later, and probably earlier,than the time of Abraham. By waste, and want of care in replanting,much of this wood disappeared, but many of the forests continued toexist long after the time of Kentigern; and when Edward I. overran thecountry, he was in the practice o
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