"Dun Dornadilla is twenty-four feet high, and the segment of it still standing is built in a beautifully regular manner. The outer circumference measures 150 feet; the diameter of the inner court is 29 feet, and that of the wall 8 feet 6 inches. Above the doorway there is a triangular stone lintel, 4 feet 10 inches at base, and 3 feet 4 from apex to baseline. Cordiner, who visited the spot in 1780, mentions that three distinct rows of galleries could be traced within the walls, and that he walked up and down different stairs from the first to the second storey, but that the third storey was partially filled up owing to the displacement of the stones. Now, as the result of the depredations of time, and the still more destructive influence of human hands, ony the remains of the first and second galleries can be discerned.
From the Celtic Monthly, v1, 1893.
https://archive.org/stream/celticmonthlymag00mack#page/52
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