Ancient Domestic Architecture of Ireland.

1G5 ornaments on the surface over it, apparently a stone taken from some ancient building and used again. The second story is also vaulted, and has seats in the jambs of the windows, a drain from a lavatory, and a small square cupboard in the wall over it. The upper room or chief chamber has windows on all the four sides, with a stone socket for the iron rod of the casement to work upon. There is no fireplace in the whole tower, which was probably more of a keep for the last defence than a usual habitation ; it has no bartizans or projections of any kind. The bastion towers in the wall of enceinte seem to be of the fifteenth century ; the wall itself is very thick, and has loop-holes ; on one side there are windows of two lights, as if of a hall, and there are a fireplace and chimney ; this is part of the work of the fifteenth century, and seems to show that the buildings in the courtyard were inhabited at .that time. ATHENRY CASTLE, co. Galway, is a fine example of a fortified house or tower of CAPITALS 01" WINDOW SHAFTS, ATIIKNIll CASTLK. the thirteenth century (see Plate VI.) ; the plan is oblong, and the ground-floor is divided into two parts by a rov of arches down the middle, with two vaults, plain ORNAMENTAL BAND ON WINDOW SHAFT, AT11ENRY CASTLE. BASE OF WINDOW SHAFT, ATHENRV CASTLI.