Identifier: journalofroyalso45roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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t, the jambs 2 feet thick ; thence runs a curved passage,.12 feet long and 3 to 4 feet wide, running under the outer wall atits north point. The souterrain was probably enclosed in a woodenor clay house with a stone fence or even basement.2 Cahermakerrila is a ring wall of very fine regular masonry,the lower- part of large blocks, the upper of regular thin slabs, laid 1 Book of Muneier (MSN.. R. I. Acad., 23 E, 20, p. 39). See Journal, vol. xxiii,p. L92. Prqe. R. I. Acad., vol. xxix, p. 190. - Slid) .small house rings, like satellites, about the chief fort, are named in ourAnnuls (e.g., F. M.) 1014 : The dun and the houses outside the dun. As toBOUterrains, Ihe Oryar odd saga (Baring Gould, Deserts oj France, vol. i, p. 200)tells how such were found by the Norse, in Ireland, with women hiding in them,their entrances hidden by hushes. Some, fine souterrains near fuam are describedby Dr. T. B. Oostello (Qalway Arch, and Jlisf. Hoc, vol. ii, p. 109, and later.) Plate IV) (To face page 52
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CAHERDOONEERISH, INTERIOR PREHISTORIC REMAINS IN BURREN 53 as headers and closely fitted.1 It is nearly circular, 96 feet acrossthe garth, 115 feet over all. The frequent occurrence of smallmasonry in the upper part of the ring walls explains how it is thatwe so often find well preserved stone forts, with even tops, 5 to 6 feethigh, the garth level with the summit, and no debris ; the small upperstones were easily removed for other purposes. The base courseshere are 2 feet 8 inches to 3 feet thick, the 10 or 11 upper ones usuallyfrom 4 to 8 inches thick ; the batter is very well laid, usually 1 in 7,but at the north-east part, where the wall is 11 feet high, it falls intothe slight, characteristic Scurve owing to settlement. In the north-east section of the garth are two early hut enclosures, one circular

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