[1104] Orpen, Eng. Hist. Rev., xxii., 248.
[1105] Figured in The Tomb of Ollamh Fodhla, by E. A. Conwell, 1873.
[1106] Gir., i., 255, 277.
[1107] Eng. Hist. Rev., xxii., 457.
[1108] In five cases the mottes are now destroyed.
[1109] The dates of the building of numbers of these castles are given in the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Loch Cè.
[1110] Cal. of Pat. Rolls, 1232-1247.
[1111] The tower at Malling was supposed to be an early Norman keep by Mr G. T. Clark (M. M. A., ii., 251), but it has recently been shown that it is purely an ecclesiastical building.
[1112] The only stone castles of early date in France which the writer has been able to visit are those of Langeais, Plessis Grimoult, Breteuil, and Le Mans. The two latter are too ruinous to furnish data.
[1113] Given in D’Achery’s Spicilegium, iii., 232.