Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . neighbouring townland of Car ha are someremains of an extensive sepulchral site. \ COOLEY The small stone-roofed building, known as the skull-house,in the graveyard of Cooley is a form of tomb of which other exampleswill be seen at Banagher and Bovevagh, which constant traditionidentifies with the graves of saints. This tomb is 8 ft. 6 in. long by6 ft. 6 m. wide ; the walls are 2 ft. thick, and at the sides they areabout 4 ft. 6 in. above the present ground level ; the perpendicularheight from the ground to the ridge of the roof is about
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . neighbouring townland of Car ha are someremains of an extensive sepulchral site. \ COOLEY The small stone-roofed building, known as the skull-house,in the graveyard of Cooley is a form of tomb of which other exampleswill be seen at Banagher and Bovevagh, which constant traditionidentifies with the graves of saints. This tomb is 8 ft. 6 in. long by6 ft. 6 m. wide ; the walls are 2 ft. thick, and at the sides they areabout 4 ft. 6 in. above the present ground level ; the perpendicularheight from the ground to the ridge of the roof is about 8 ft. Thereis an opening, 15 in. by 12 in., in the western gable, and one 15 5 in. in the eastern gable at a height of about 4 ft. from theground, no doubt to permit the relics within to be seen ortouched. Such a shrine tomb is alluded to in a note in the 15th centuryRawlinson MS. B 512 : [After St Cianans burial] a high bishopused to cut Cianans hair and nails every Maunday Thursday inevery year down to Adamnans time. Now Adamnan went into the. 202 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND tomb to behold and touch the body. Forthwith his eye is struckout. So he fasts regarding it, and his eye is then restored to no one dares to enter the tomb. Stokes, Martyrologyof Oengus (Henry Bradshaw Society, xxix), p. 245. GREENCASTLE The castle of Greencastle in Inishowen, which was called theNew Castle by the Irish, stands on a low rocky knoll on the northernshore of Loch Foyle at the entrance to the loch. Towards thesea the walls rise sheer above a low cliff ; on the opposite or northernside the knoll is separated from the adjoining country by a piece ofmarshy ground. The greatest length of the present enclosure isabout 280 ft. from east to west, and its breadth from north to southis about 100 ft. exclusive of the projection of the great tower, some36 ft. beyond the line of the northern wall. The castle was regardeduntil towards the end of the last century as par
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