appears to have been connedrd with the mainiand by a mole. Lough l>oon :or Loughadoon, in 1.ihe townland of La1ckagh is a few miles .south ec;rst 1of Lough Birrogue and one of the islands there is comiplcteJy enclosed by a structure which was a perfect replica of the .Grianan of Ailfjaoh. Within the last two years ivy has cavseu a section of the massive, unmortared stone rampart to crumble into the lake. 1See A.rm.als of the Four Masters, 1530 Ki'ltoori~h Lak.e has one of itls islands the remains of an O'Boyle r,astle which figures very prominently in the Anna.ls of the Foittr Ma~ters and in the Stiate Papers of the early seventeenth 'Century. "On it i1s a gun said to have been recovered from one of the Armada ships which was lost on Trymore strand" (Harkin op.cit). Cna.nnogbog, nc1w a town]and on Loghross Bay, has ,a lake island on which the O''Boyles were reputed to have had one of their ca1stJcs. Lough Anna, situated near Silver Hill, to the south east of .( ;]enties, ti:xs a very fine example of crannog with an outer lagoon or ir0sse protecting it. Drimkelin in the parish o·f Inver was di1scovered in 18:~3 in a bog 1and was described as the most perfect primitive wooden dwelling yet bvought to light (1\\":ood-Martin). A model of the 1house was made by the Roya:.l Irish Ae,~ademy. The origin-al was surrounded by a .staked enclosure 1nnd the Hooring of the house rested on hazel branches, covered with layer.s of fine sand. A paved causeway, over a feiundation of hazel branehes 1and l:ogs led from the door of the house throu~h the gateway of the stoekndc. Sec aho Maguire History of the Diocese of Raphoe Vol. 1., p. 511. KILBARRON CASTLE, HOME OF THE O'CLEARY'S. 328.
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