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with passing their sons and daughters under the fires of IVfoloch — a 

 name also given to the sun. 



Tlie Crom-leacs with only two supporters are now -rarely met 

 with, but a perfect one of these Trilitlions stands at Kindrahad, 

 county of Donegal.* At Slidery, near Dundrum, county of Downj-f- 

 there is one of the three-pillared altars, the table stone of which is 

 nearly circular. In the same county, near Drumgoolan, another, 

 shaped like a coffin, and of uncommon regularity in the construc- 

 tion ;% while at Castle Mary, county of Cork, a Cromleac is described 

 by Dr. Smith,§ as having the remarkable appendage of a stone 

 table for cutting up the victims. This altar bears the name of 

 Carig-na-crioth, the sun's rock. These instances are given merely 

 to shew the variety of form, and for that purpose are selected from 

 the almost innumerable Crom-leacs which remain throughout the 

 island. 



Some also are found with four upright stones or pillars, two at each 

 end. Of these it is sufficient to note one or two of the most remarkable. 

 On the top of Craig's rock, parish of Finvoy, county of Antrim,^ 

 stands a Crom-leac, the two front pillars of which are four feet 

 high and one asunder ; the height of those at the back is seven 

 feet six inches ; underneath the stone, and between the uprights, is a 

 small chamber, now much filled with stones, the entrance into 

 which was between the two southern or front pillars; — at the 

 farther or north end, this chamber opens into two small vaults, 

 seven feet six inches long, by seven feet wide, and these have evidently 



• Parish of CulduflP, Shaw Mason's Parochial Surveys, II. p. 155. 



+ Dubardieu's Survey of Down, p. 272. — Harris's History of Down, p. 201. 



J Dubardieu's Down, 272. 



§ History of Cork, I. p. HO. 



f Shaw Mason's Parochial Survey, I. SS*. 



