Show I IN A MOUND OF EARTH > llt to an Anrltnl Miktirraniau lie treat lu I Ihg North uf IrelauJ UALLYUUHEY Ireland March 20 1803 To the Editor NotlclUK several Itemi In regard lo mound builders and their anllqulttel lu your molt valuable paper lotus lime age and thinking a few items from thin laud of tbe ebimrock wou U I would bo of f interest to In I many read c re i I will endeavor lo deccrlbe tome that are found ou this side I ol Ibo At Undo Upon bearing of one being newly Opened In this hvallty on Wcduenlny a beautiful mornlui S I bliJeJ a train World Ir tllluoum r mail vlllaie some five mile from IIIUs money where AlouDdr FaJ on gulf I Ill laboring III promulgating the Uure The lho1I I Went 00 I In a line run Clog tomally cattle a maU vistsl place Dr the famous mnl cause way i all ron for Inurlna In Join Last Oi arrivlnit at the station and linking Inquiries sound that I hal to t walk mine two tallies to the nnuod cr they fat cillej here My wk was through Ibr town of Utranccu Food tbu ball demtiuool Mr W Peru llutchlnwn who kindly gave me the privilege or Going through and itivstletainz tile Models whirls wag 00 fill local Upon arrlvlnt at my deitlnillon I round the mound entirely turroiindtil by treee and on aBcinJInit lo Ills top I dleo ivered that 1 It wai flit and that i me flesh dust had been thrown up It apte16 that Mil Hulcnlnion had been hiving going agricultural I work dont and the workmen noticed a IIIInK In ot the loll lt covet ug deeper to ascertain the cause they uueirlbed Ibo eutrince of what proved lo be a remarkably extensive aod well preserved lubtera eau house This underground dwelling II renlirkable I In many ways It li iltuated under the louih rampart of an old earth forth about theta bundreJ feet tn I diameter ant about twenty feet high being Oil me Sailboat elevation 1 eleva-tion In the neighborhood and adjrd Inga splendid view of me surround lug country mere li I a deep ton on the cut due being an almost tarpon IIleular descent of eighty fast to the Bush river which winds around IU bar ThKiubiolranean edlfloo l entered by e fl gilt of five well formed but narrow ittni which load from the original level of the Interior of the fort to the Ibor of the veilluule of the cave uwelllug From this tbe tint chamber extends due i uth under the template for fix feel by one foot ill Inches wile and four feet high At the end ol tills first chamber la I a door one foot four Inches wide and bout two feet high behind which the opening at once takes a right angle turn to the root running thirteen feet with fairly even dimensions to auolber and mailer door which lull to a Chamber Seal feet lonll and Due took tight lorb will and Ter aging four fuel 11113 active high i 1 hit feet tram the door 01 Ibl chum br ad 00 be not 114 alas of II II other aJ woller I door leading tells flDO chamber at right angles 10 Ito U pendlast forty feet northward by two toot six Inches Wile Bud four loot lob nlID Attbeeitlof the gin cut chamber II moll tunnel cr pas ago two feet high gild eighteen I Inches wide leauInK to the outside out-side of the tortilla rampart Till seemed lo have Leon lot Silt double purpose of an eecapu lor the occupants II hard pressed tram tin main And also for draining the underground dwelling which bag u gradual fall lo tbli point rise val are built ol rough boulder stories and the roof IB I composed of list itonua ipaunlog from will loa Walls which vprJ to have lo-a laid up lu a very uncouth man nol Lit two places there ourJ to lisirobtan vaintecattled np Iron the coiling Tbe 11 jor li I earth throughout rise only thluge found In tbecuam bore wllu opoJ wr to boust up 1011 I have belonged to a now two pieces I of Iron ore alto fragment cf pottery end a piece of a quarm for grinding ojrn Tbe ll date of the building of t heam mouudi cinnot be learned but eullloe lOllY It baa beau uiuuy oenlurloi ago This Hjecl been lor a defense agaluit any enemyaithey are Mail built on the liljliBil elevation near five to aUordlni a eplendldj view t the noun is lurrouodlng tham The uppoatllonli that they were built by Dane by carrying the loose earth up 10 their aproni IOU building then piiiagea an J noting the eirth around hem thetThere There are n great many of tbniu mDundo or fort m Ibo north of Ire Ind but not all hive subterranean iiuegei I 10 or If they hive these lave not heen oteacJ yet Afterep9hJlui aa Saint or eo theta and get t Ins what Information I oulll 1 returned to our Held ol labor a lltllo town oi 3WO lohabltantl which we hive Iravoleil utd find the people very ritloeut I regard to religious inallert and adhering very cluiely lo their own Ai title Is a new Held ot labor we have noepeoMunwaal this writ I lug DANIEL UniuLi |