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Lough Corrib : its shores and islands ; with notices of Lough Mask (1872)

Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876 · Dublin : McGlashan & Gill · leaf 252

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there still exist the remains of an ancient circularfort, the walls of which, although frequently repaired, as it isused occasionally for a sheep pen, are so characteristic of theancient mode of building, and so like those seen in similarstructures in Aran, that the following sketch is inserted.… … Passing westwards from Inishmain church by the stone en-closure figured above, the author last year discovered, amongthe limestone rocks that slope towards the lake, a very cu-rious structure, of which the illustration on the following pageis a graphic representation. It is a square unmortared…

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