any sort upon the heap) which has been reared to those who, in 

 the rebeUion of 1 798, fell at the battle of Wicklow Gap.* 



In the county of Kilkenny, on the hill of Clogh-Manta is a large 

 Cairn, eighty-seven paces in circumference; it is surrounded by a 

 circular enclosure of stones, which contains more than two acres. 

 Clogh-Manta signifies the stone of the Great God ; the name Man 

 is said to be one of the oldest appellations of God, and usually 

 found in connection with the remains of the primitive idolatry; 

 wherever that word forms a part of the name of any district, that 

 district will be found to abound in altars, cairns, and circles of 

 stones. -f 



In the same county, on Tory Hill, called in Irish Slieb-Grian 

 the Hill of the Sun, stands a cairn of great size, having on the top a 

 large flat altar-stone. J It is remarkable that a tradition still exists 

 at Waterford, that in ancient times the citizens went in procession, 

 on certain days of solemnity, to the conical hill of Slieb-Grian in 

 the neighbouring county of Kilkenny, and there offered sacrifice.§ 

 The ancient Irish name of the harbour of Waterford was Cuan-na- 

 Grioth, the Harbour of the Sun.^ 



Some Cairns contain cells or chambers ; these probably united the 

 characters of a temple and a sacred sepulchre ; the interior seems to 

 denote this — the narrow passage — the small chambers — the altar 

 stone of some — the monumental urn and burnt bones, all point out the 



• Brewster's Beauties of Ireland, I. 385. 



I Tighe's Survey of Kilkenny, 623. — Trans. R. I. A. II. p. 64 — Sir William Drummond in 

 his Origines proves Man to be synoniraous with Osiris, Baal, Mendes, and the Sun. — Vol. II- 

 book 4-. ch. 12, p. 398 to 407.— Rowland Mona Antiq. p. i9. — Bryant I. 402—11. pp. 8, 198> 

 307. 471. 



I Tighe's Survey of Kilkenny, 622. 



§ Ryland's History of Waterford, p. 109. 



f Ibid. 



