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f/iThe dimensions of these circles are very different: some are only 

 twelve feet, some twenty feet in diameter, while many are of much 

 greater size. Some consist of one circle of stones, others of two, 

 and many of three ; in some cases the circles are placed one within 

 the other; but occasionally a large circle has a small one placed on 

 either side. Of this latter disposition there is a remarkable instance 

 on the mountain above Rosstrevor, county of Down, where a circle 

 of seventy-five feet is on each side supported by a small one of 

 twenty feet diameter, and the whole is contained within an ellipse 

 of about an hundred and twenty feet in breadth by two hundred 

 and ten in length. The whole of this druidical structure was 

 traceable a few years back, when the above measurements were 

 made. .^rirr-.-.; .: .':. i". 



At Grange, half a mile from Lough Gur, near Kilballyowen, 

 county of Limerick, there are still remaining, in good preservation, 

 three circles of different dimensions, which stand so near each other, 

 that they probably were employed at the same time in the celebra- 

 tion of the mysteries. On the north-east side stands the smallest, 

 forty-five feet in diameter. A perfect circle, formed of stones of 

 large size, placed at intervals, all from four to five feet high, and 

 several of them with squared flat tops. Fifty feet south-west of this 

 circle there is a second, measuring an hundred and sixty feet in 

 diameter. Sixty stones only are left, in some parts standing quite 

 close together, in others a wide gap between. These stones are all 

 about three feet in height, and the ground around and within the 

 circle is perfectly level. About twenty feet south-east stands an 

 irregular conical stone four feet high ; and at forty-five feet due 

 east of this, another oblong stone lies prostrate, seeming to have 

 fallen. It is worthy of observation, that the situation in which the 

 conical stone and the pillar-stone are here placed, is much the same 



