COUNTY DERRY.
Inishrush.—Ante, p. [152].
Loughshillen.—Ante, pp. [148-9].
Loughan Island.—Ante, pp. [153] and [155].—Six stone celts, two bronze celts, three fibulæ, a bridle-bit, two bronze cheek-pieces (ante, pp. [136-7]), an iron spear-head and spike,[201] were found here, and are now in the Museum, R.I.A.
Fort Lough occupies nearly the centre of an extensive bog on the right-hand side of one of the roads leading from St. Johnstown to Burt on Lough Swilly. It is described as about one mile long, and a quarter wide, but was formerly of much greater extent. There was a tradition that formerly a castle erected in the centre of this lake had been submerged by the neglect of a girl in not carefully re-covering a fairy fountain in the vaults, and consequently the waters burst forth in a raging torrent! After drainage operations, when the level of the lough subsided, marks of an island became visible in the centre, and by degrees stonework was observed rising above the surface, proving that the subaquatic castle was not altogether mere visionary fiction. These walls were found supporting a deposit of peat.[202]
COUNTY FERMANAGH.
Plate XLI.