1904. 



D'HvH%YN. — Sligo Conference, Archaeology. 



217 



Near this place, at Culleenaduff, were many evidences of ancient habi- 

 tation ; flakes and cores of chert were plentifnl, and a stone axe (I*late 

 16, fig. 3) of the ordinary kitchen midden type was picked np in a 

 field above the raised beach. 



On the southern extremity of the sandhills bordering on Ballysadare 

 Bay, on the top of a high sand-dune, is an extensive accumulation of 

 stones of all sizes, mixed with the ordinary marine shells, including 

 broken Purpuras. This was evidently a hut site, but it did not yield 

 anything of interest. 



A^n. 



Fig. I. Kistvaen below Strandhill. 



mnmm 



mmpmfmiiim/iMim> 



<?•©«. 



Fig. 2, Plan of Kistvaen. 



From Ballysadare Bay, northwards to Sligo Bay, are very extensive 

 sandhills, which are in parts comparatively modern, as it is stated that 

 the cultivation of the old surface caused the sand to shift and overwhelm 

 an adjacent village and farms. As the dunes are now almost completel)- 

 covered with grass and bent, very few evidences of prehistoric habitation 

 were observed. In the sandhills, below the village of Strandhill, is a 

 double kistvaen or giant's grave, as it is locally called (figs i and 2). 

 It is in good preservation, except that the covering stones have 

 been removed. It is about eighteen feet in length and seven in breadth. 

 The slabs are of limestone, and some of them are nine feet in length. 



At the north end facing Sligo Bay is the ancient church of Killespuc- 

 brone (^Kill-easpog-brone — the church of Bishop Brown). It is now 

 abbreviated into Killespuc, and is charmingly situated on the edge of 

 the sea, on what is evidently the remains of a circular pagan fort. 



