'!'he largest IHJ1.1a rl •ut:n l i11 Uv~ l. .'a:-lle i ~ 011c in i l~ southern wing aLout ii5 feet loug · !Jy 18 feet wide, none of tho1;e in the tower being more than 13 feet or 14 feet square. One of the latter is usually termed the dungeon. It forms tile third storey o-f the tower and until lately wa;; lighted, so lo say, by only one small loop hole, J•ic!'cing the ~outhern wall th~ ,1ugh 8 feet of ma~onry. Th~ ioof'l1ulc has, however, been ~nlargcd and supplied with a window; and the dungeon, thou.r{h hy no m~ans a cheerful apartment, is now much more habitable than of old. The only mode of access to the myste~·ious ehamher used to be lly a doorway, not more than 4 feet high, surmounted hy a small pointed arch of cut stone. This opening ·is not on a level with the floor of the dungeon, its thre?hhcld being atout 2 feet higher, so as to make one's first .'itep on Jeavicg the ream r em:?.rkab;y inconvenient . . . It communicates with a winding flight of stone steps in the thickness of the wall leading to the ro::im im:nediately over it. so that a visitor to th~ dungeon would be obliged to ascend to the room forming the fou!·th storey, and after crossing it diagonally, to ma.ke his way downwards by the winding i't.'.3.ir, which I have desc!·illed. The dungeon is, however, now accessible by a mo~·e convenient entrance. The -0wner of the castle. during my visit to him, happened one day, While pl3nning some repairs to tl:e upper" p:ut of the tower, to cihserve )1i~h up on its 119!·thern face two !•.1'J l ' h • ll1;:-; , l•J whii'h lit.: i.:•_1ttlt\ .not n:n1\:u1bcl' e1nv <·01Tc~pondillg openings to the interior. .on raising the flagged floor of a small closet above these Ulll\ecognised loopholes, the workmen, summoned for the exploration -0f thi? mystery, discovered a fight of stone stairs partly blcekeci up with loo.;e masonry and rubbish. This wa~ immed· iut~ly rlea1,ed out and another passage to the dungeon was dis~ closed, whi rh had ]112en blocked up fot• some unkn0\'<'11 reason aP1es before .... •.•(I"'.' \.f .. lf, There are still two une·xamined loopholes on the onoosite side of the tower which must have given light or air to some smart room or passage blocked up in a similar manner on that side; but no search has ·been made for them from the inte:·ior of the huilding from an app:·ehension tl1at further di~tu rbance of th~ masonry might endanger the sta.l>ility of the castle wa~l. Based on "Memories of a mCnth arn:mg the 'mere Irish' b.y "W. H. Floredic-2" (William Hurt, grands::n o: Genera'l Han) . MORE ABOUT DOE CASTLE by DEORAIDHE. From '.\Ir. :'.\1aclnty:e, former County Llhrarian for County D::negal, (a P-ativ.-e of the dis~ tdct of Doe), we ohtained ·further interesting data concernirig Caislean na dTuagh (dTuath?). It changed hands a great numl'er or times until it finally passe'.! into the p os~ ession of a Colonel Harte. who fought at the battle of Seringapatan in India. He brought )'lome with him an
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