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 COMLONGAN CASTLE 239 THIRD PERIOD special care has been taken for a long time to maintain it, so that cracks and fissures are beginning to develop themselves in various parts of the building, which unarrested will soon bring about its ruin. The castle is nearly square on plan (Fig. 196), measuring 48 feet 10 inches from east to west by 42 feet 7 inches from north to south. Its height is about 59 feet to the top of the battlements (see Section), and about 68 feet to the top of the south-east watch turret, which is the highest point. The basement has a vault 17 feet 5 inches high, divided with an intermediate wooden floor. The vault carries the floor of the hall, and above this there are two stories which had joisted floors. Fi<;. 197. Coinlonpan Castle. Interior of Hall. The entrance doorway, which is up five steps, is at the north side, through a round arched doorway with an iron yett and bar-hole. A