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The Irish Nahiralist. 



September, 



The graveyard is still used for interments, and some of the recent 

 graves were composed of the pebbles, bones, and shells of the ancient 

 kitchen middens. 



Streedagh Point. 



At the end of the road near Streedagh Ho use, are a number of hut sites 

 of stone, together with the usual shell-mounds and broken pebbles. Near 

 oneof these huts a broken upper stone of a quern was noticed, but no flint 

 or worked chert could be seen. Bones, which Dr. Scharffhas kindly 

 identified as those of a small form of Ox, like the Kerry breed, Irish 

 Hare, large Fox, and Goat, were found among the shell-mounds. Most 

 of the long bones were broken to extract the marrow. 



Near one of the huts, two hammer-stones (Plate i6, fig. 4), of a fine- 

 grained quartzite were collected. The larger one measures eight inches 

 by four. On a dune overlooking the sea is a stone circle, 33 feet in 

 diameter (fig. 3). In its centre is a smaller circle or earn of stones which 

 surrounds the grave (fig 4). It is composed of slabs of limestone and 

 mica-schist, and measures 7 ft. by 5^ ft. at the broadest part, narrowing 

 down to 2\ feet at one end. 



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Fig. 4. 



Plan of stone circle near Streedagh Point. 

 Plan of chamber in centre of same. 



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Carrickfadda. 

 The sandhills from this point northward to Roskecragh Point, were 

 carefully searched, but as they are mostly covered with bent, no traces 

 of prehistoric occupation were observed. 



