Identifier: journalofroyalso1915roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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
Subjects: Ireland -- Genealogy Ireland -- History Societies, etc Ireland -- Antiquities Societies, etc
Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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uth), lies east of Ballybaun Housewhere the R of the parish name Kilfenora is marked on themaps. The herdsman of Ballybaun knew of the other forts, but saidthey were hardly noticeable. There is a curious single block ofstone with a battlementled outline in the last described liss,6 feet by 3 feet by 8 inches, like the side of a dolmen save for itsirregular top. Caheremon^ is hardly traceable at a bend of the road north fromKilfenora. Petrie calls it a fine remain if he be not confusingit with Ballykinvarga. Dutton in 1808 calls it Caheromond, andadds that its walls were covered with orpine. It is said to have hadtwo rings, but I found bare trace of the ring of small filling of one.I seem to recollect the walls as standing in 1878 and 1887, but maybe mistaken. 1 Petrie, Military Architecture oj Ireland ; Hely Duttons Statistical Survey,Appendix, p. 12. Orpine, or live long, sedum telephium, covers the walls ofan old fort, called Cahiromond, near Kilfenora. Plate XXI ) LTo face page 264
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