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now to be entirely unknown, but from its extent it muft have 

 been a work of confiderable labour, time and expenfe. — The area 

 is circular, forty-four yards in diameter. In the amaffrng of this 

 heap, there has not been obferved any kind of regularity, except 

 in the ftones of the circumference, thefe (from the prefent remains) 

 feem to have been placed clofe to each other, in order to contain 

 the fmaller ftones of which the Cairn is compofed, Thofe that 

 remain perfed are one yard each above the furface of the ground, 

 and fuppofed to be as much below it ; they muft have been 

 all (when firft placed there) equal, or as nearly - fo, as ftones 

 in their natural ftate could be procured. — The moft perfect 

 ftone A, which is that bearing the Ogham charaders, of which 

 a drawing is given, ftands declined in an angle of twenty-five de- 

 grees from the perpendicular j this declination was intended the 

 better to contain the fmaller ftones. — After the firft external row, 

 all regularity was laid afide, the ftones were thrown together pro- 

 mifcuoufly and of different fizes ; they feem to be in general the 

 common ftones colledted off the fields. Perhaps the delineation of 

 the Ogham charaders, with fome circumftances, which have lately 

 appeared, relative to the infide of this mafs, may aflift the anti- 

 quary in his refearch, and enable him to know, at this very re- 

 mote period, in fome degree, what the intention of the original 

 builders had been. 



In the year 1785, John M'Carrol, proprietor of the ground on 

 wliich the Cairn ftands, having penetrated the weft-fide farther 



than 



