. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . the gully therestill exist two lines of mounds, each over twenty feet in width,with an intervening fosse about fifteen feet in width, which aredimensions that constantly recur in the fortified headlands on thesouth and west coasts of Ireland. A road connecting with the 1 Four Masters, 9 ; Gwynns Dindshenchas, lii, 121. 2 Mr. T. J. Westropp, 12 HOWTH AND ITS OWXEPuS. main road l(> the lighthouse lias been cut through these earth-works, and on the s
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . the gully therestill exist two lines of mounds, each over twenty feet in width,with an intervening fosse about fifteen feet in width, which aredimensions that constantly recur in the fortified headlands on thesouth and west coasts of Ireland. A road connecting with the 1 Four Masters, 9 ; Gwynns Dindshenchas, lii, 121. 2 Mr. T. J. Westropp, 12 HOWTH AND ITS OWXEPuS. main road l(> the lighthouse lias been cut through these earth-works, and on the southern side of the main road a singlerampart only remains. It has been nearly removed, but sufficientexists to show that it rdn in a curve across the back at the top ofthe slope inside the mounds and fosse. The outer ward, which,so far as can be seen, contains no middens or undoubtedly earlyearthworks, is at its northern side over seven hundred and fiftyfeet across: but it is irregular. On the inner gully remains of arampart which seems to have been single are still to be found. THE BAILEY FCaT. HOWTH C MODERN BUILDINGS OMITTED). Some portions are five or six feet in height, and twenty-sevenfeet in thickness; but along the steeper part and the northerncliff the entrenchment was slight. Indeed, at the latter place itmight be considered a late fence only for a midden of limpetand periwinkle shells, which are evidently of great age, in theembankment at the head of a path leading down to an oldquarry. The inner ward, which measures seven hundred andninety feet, extends from the hollow to the Lighthouse, and onthe rock now occupied by that trium])!! of modern engineering IN EAELY TIMES. 1 o skill, where a midden similar to the one just mentionedwas found, stood the citadel or keep of the ancient fort. In thecounty of Waterford, at Danes Island and Island Hubbock, andin the county of Clare, at Bishops Island, there were similarentrenchments on the land, with nearly detached rock cit
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