Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . rt on all sides, save the north, by the impressive Journal, vol. xxsi, p. 284. 2 Journal, vol. xxxi, p. 283. 250 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND terraced hiUs of grey and dove-coloured limestone. The outer ringwas a drystone waU. The fort, with its stone-faced inner mound,once closely resembled one of the two ringed cahers of the district;but when an enemy scaled the outer waU he was confronted by adeep fosse and swept by showers of stones from the high innerrampart. The outer defence was removed, probably when theroad was made,
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . rt on all sides, save the north, by the impressive Journal, vol. xxsi, p. 284. 2 Journal, vol. xxxi, p. 283. 250 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND terraced hiUs of grey and dove-coloured limestone. The outer ringwas a drystone waU. The fort, with its stone-faced inner mound,once closely resembled one of the two ringed cahers of the district;but when an enemy scaled the outer waU he was confronted by adeep fosse and swept by showers of stones from the high innerrampart. The outer defence was removed, probably when theroad was made, and only the foundations, and here and there largeblocks remain ; it was 12 to, perhaps, 18 feet thick. Inside this isthe fosse, fed by several springs, and 6 to 10 feet deep : it is 9 to 14feet wide in the bottom. The inner ring is nearly perpendicular, soI presume that the revetment was removed in fairly recent rises 8 to 9 feet over the garth, and 13 to 15 feet over the fosse,being 23 to 27 feet thick below and 6 feet on top, well preserved,. T>ouble:CAHERBULLOG 1906 Caheebxjllog and 430 feet in circumference. The garth is oval, 90 feet acrossnorth and south, by 111 feet east and west. It is planted withbeech and sj^camore, the ring being closely overgrown with hawthornand hazel. The gateway, with a gangway, faces east; apparentlythe revetment continued so as to form built gate piers, and, I presume,a lintelled entrance at the gap,i probably reached by a trunk orplank across the ditch, Uke Doon fort. There is no local name save the Rath. Caherbullog (Ordnance Survey Map No. 5).On revisiting the Lower cathair in the vaUey I photographedand carefully sketched and measured its rampart, which, as I noted, ^is in two sections. The inner section has as careful a face as the ^ Of course the gate was always the weak spot in such forts. The early IrishaUude to this—, in Book of Leinster, p. 37 6 20 : It is a perU to be upon thefort unfortified and the shout of the pe
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