CHAP. VIII.]
LOG HOUSES IN IRELAND.
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Log Houses in Ireland.
Side Elevation.
Fig. 97.—Log House, Drumkelin Bog, Donegal.
Front Elevation.
Fig. 98.—Log House, Drumkelin Bog, Donegal.
In the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy a model is preserved of a log hut, discovered in 1833 in Drumkelin bog, Inver (Donegal),[1] made of rough logs and planks of oak timber (Figs. 97, 98), split with "wedges," twelve feet square and nine feet high. "The framework was com-
- ↑ Captain Mudge, Archæologia, xxvi. p. 361, pl. 47.