FOUR ANCIENT STONE FORDS the· w1dtlhi of the whole wiaH jg 4 fe121t s,t.one:s. 'Ilhrs· growtfil on the island, 7 inchest but ait its a;pparent wide1S1t, self set as it ds, was too thick for whicil"e there :is :a shallow ho1e in the further not.es of any worl:Jh on this foUlllld:at:ion wall., tlhe figur1e is 8 fee1t vlsillt. ove·rall. The hole julSJt menti.om.~d On retUiJm to· shore we met Mrs. cannoit r€!1Jll'le:sen1t V0Stiige:s of. a sout.er- Campbell, just arrived, who tQold us r.ai:n.i. Gr1a1ss covers the mteri.Lor of the tlhlat ther·e is a story tha.t the: is~and fo:r:t a.ndt in this., a: bou1:!id2r i.s embed- was used as a piriLson for a l:a.dy by ded, but tihere ~s no reial evidienice of one of t'h1e O'Donnens. This sitory any chamber bei.inig sll.ted therein._ w:as borne Qllit by a. Mr. Willie Ward 'I'he diay foiUow~ng neiw.s, Qf .Loch whom we met makldlg hay as we deAnna htad al:r:e1ady beelili cho·s1en for a. sieended the hlill. He a~o told us vJ1sdt by Mr. McGU[ and myEie'lf to a tihiat tJhe- boa:tsllp was coll!struicted by n:;iwly dlsiclo.sed m~dden sli.t.e: at Ca.sh- a. priest s1ome ye(a.rs a,g\O, th.art tlhe forelgolain, tihe owner of. tlh1e s~·te, MI. tdfied is~arnd was Qince pLa.nted w1ith Oba.rLe·s Gall1agih.er, havmg tQld Mr. s1allies which were1 cut dorwn eiarly in McGill how a s1torm h.ad ll.llliCOV18red the pre;.s.ent centuxy, niat[Ure siin.ce suggestive materda.~. Sio, ::htaving 8p2n1·~ tihen 'b:ed.rn1g allowed to t1ake· con1t.rul, a iillllffiiber of houil"s walking ahout .lMJ.". and th:at tJhe island wias once in gre,ia.t G1aUagher's pro,perrty wltlb.1 . hd.m.se·1f a.s use by paitieen makers. . ornr guitcli2·, we miade for the· loch. For the benefit of visitors it· is to 'I!he.rie i.s one boat on l.tD•C'h1 Anna: for- be s·tated that the ;positio!Il1 of Loch trun1ately, a fr'iend of Mr. McGill, Mr. Anna is clearly shown qn till.e O.S. Clampbell, N.T., Qf Glen,tiias, ihJas a m.aps but t'he track leiad:inig to it is p1art soore in it. S.o wie• called at M:r. e:ertiai:nly not so sihown. One goe.s Cla.mpbell'.s, house a1nid found his son. abou1t a :mile along the Glen road -Brendia:ni, just o:ff to join his flaith-er, north of the Owerie1a Ru.vier· bw~ not a:s :fiortuna·tely for me, now on hiollday, far as the Gre1en1a.ns Post Oflirce and on the to·ch. The M:esisrs. OampbeU t!hen strikes right up .a track, juJSt took us a.rouind and on to the fortJifti2d negotiable by priv:a te c:atrs, w'hi~Clh is.land a.ind ·the other two islands sit- winds up the- hill an.d com·e~ QUt on ua.ted ~n the Lo1clh. · Theis1e · oitihtsir two the. crest a.t a pod.nt from which the do not need further m2ntion: bo.th locih c.a.n bei d!i.sc·erned on1 tihe- left. arei unduwhtedly of 111atull"al rock foa-- Arrangements were· maide to rem1ait1:on, while nerrt1h12ir lh1a.s any sig.n:s visit the sdte in the ne1ar furture- so; on oif forb1ficatdon or other b~ldL.mg. the 14th of Aug1ust, M.r. McG:ll and L ~ro·m tJhis pre·llimdnary vi-s~t to set out to pick up Mr. Camp·bel[ ·:and the fortified island, Wf:: brought away his brother-in-laiw, Mr. Miaguli.re,-!h.1.s the idea of an island elliptical in shape, Eion Bre1I11dlan:. going by b~·~y,clie. Once loruge·r east-west thla.n nor'tlh-ooutiht arrived a:t t:he Inch, Mr. Clampbell and W1lth·a boa tsl~p to the south. It is his flamily rowed us ou.t to the forttllwi::n w.oiodled wiLth wHd .growth. In- ed island rand worked hero,icaUy to s1!de tJhie s:urif1a,ce is of ooft so:il, though, clear the thick growth whi.ch had · towiards tJhe eiast end it rds1es· and is cut sihort our pre-v:iorus dnvestigia:t:.Ons.. rock blarnd. Eas;t of nQrth cei!l\tre By d~n.t of tlhe:ir efforts· we are a.ble therE., a1·e ·stepping stones and, immedi- to gtive the unde·rmenitio:ne1d details. a.tely inside 01f the-Se· theT'e ds an ir- 'Ii.he hut me!Il:tl'..oned earlier, · or regu~lar line of ro1ciks a;pparenitly arti- wha:t rem.adills of lit, is rerc11a.ngular, fi.d1ail.ly pilla,ced, wht!.c1h. lead to a · hiut, but ri2~1Ja.1ins of bot:Jhi north and soutih tihie DJorth and piart of the east waJI of walls have a slight !bat.ter. Tlhe eas,t whi.ch are mrade· of unmo·r·iared and west walls are ·liargely . col496.
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