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CHAPTER II.Ogham-inscribed Monuments of Ireland in the County of Kerry, Barony of CorkaguinyRuth-cave, Rathmalode Colonel Lane Fox's description of Rath-cave ofRoovesuiore Lougher Lintel Stone Stone Cross, Ballynahunt Ogham undergroundLeabhar-na-h-Uidhre : identification of the burial place of Eochaid:Argthec Inscriptions at Ballynahunt Ballinvoher Brackloon BallintannonGortnegullanagh Lugnagappul Aglish Aghacarrible Cave materialsbrought from cemeteries called Killeens used; only for the burials of unbaptisedchildren and suicides Inscriptions at Kinard Trabeg Ballintaggart Bally -nesteenig Emlagh West Burnham House Kilfountaiu MaumanorighCahir-na- gat Temple Manahan Tyvoria Dunmore, or Clogher Head.27. A SURVEY of the Ogham-inscribed monuments of Ireland KEBUYmay be conveniently commenced in the district where they ( Corkft o r 'y)'first attracted learned attention, that the is, Barony of Corkaguiny,in the County of Kerry. It is conterminous with the Peninsula oflong peninsula which, reaching out more than thirty miles Cwestward into the Atlantic, separates the Bay of Tralee on thenorth from the Bay of Dingle on the south. At the pointwhere it juts from the mainland rises the lofty mountain groupof Slieve Mish, overlooking the town of Tralee to the north.A prolongation of the Slieve Mish group, lower, but morevaried in outline, runs along the medial line of the peninsulathrough about two-thirds of its length, and there, turningnorthward, unites itself with the outlying mass of MountBrandon, which rises over the sea at the northern side. Dingle,situated on a creek on the southern side of the peninsula, in themore open country lying westward of these mountains, wasformerly approached from Tralee by a highroad crossing theridge which connects Brandon with the mountain chain firstmentioned. The Tralee road now avoids this difficult pass bvbeing carried obliquely through a depression in the medialmountain chain debouching at Annascaul on the southern lineof coast road which leads to Dingle from Castlemaine andKillarney. Entering the district by this avenue, as from
20 OGHAM INSCRIPTIONSKERRY Castlemaine, Oghamic sites and monuments may be observed(Cor agumy). numerous on either hand as we proceed westwards.28. After passing the ravine which separates Slieve Mishwith its ruined barbaric fortress of Cahir Conree on itswestern extremity, from the lower eminences, we enter theparish of Ballinvoher, a rough, lonely country, but aboundingtowards the sea in remains of circular huts and otherdry stone constructions, indicating a former ill-civilized butnumerous population. Here, some distance up the mountainEathmalode. acclivity to the right, in the townland of Rathmalode, there1 * 1*'Kerry formerly existed a Rath or earthen fort, and in it a cave,45 the lintel over the entrance to which, having on it a crossand an Ogham inscription, was transferred to the adjoiningtownland of Lougher, where it served the same purpose overthe door of a farmer's dwelling until removed to the RoyalIrish Academy, in Dublin, where it now is. We shall haveRath cave. occasion to notice many Rath-caves hereafter, and Imay atonce cite the compendious and interesting account of theseconstructions given by Colonel Lane Fox in his description ofthe Ogham-inscribed monuments found in the Rath-cave ofRoovesmore, in the County of Cork :" They (theforts or Raths) vary from 30 to 100 and 200 feet indiameter. The largest I know of in the south of Ireland, called Lisna-raha,has a diameter of 280 feet, with a ditch 12 feet deep, and 30in width at the outside The interior space of the rath isalmost invariably undermined by a set of chambers, theentrance to which is usually by an opening so small as barely to admitthe body of a man creeping on the belly. These chambers vary insize, but average 9 feet in length by 3 to 4 in height, and thesame inwidth. Similar narrow openings communicate onwards to the otherchambers ;and sometimes these underground galleries diverge into twoor more strings of chambers, occupying the whole interior space withinthe circuit of the intrenchments. The main entrance is frequently inthe ditch of the rath, and is not unusually the smallest. When thenature of the ground admits it, they are often excavated in the naturalearth, and domed over without any artificial support ; but others are* Each sheet of the Ordnance Map of Ireland contains six square feet. To lighten the labour ofsearching so large a surface, the references are reduced to areas of a toot each ;asu. I,upper left. u. c. upper central. u. r. upptr right.1. I. lower left. I. c. lower central. I. r. lower right.
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