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poflefled by inhabitants, at different periods, of very 

 different degrees of civilization. Considering things in 

 this light, the antiquities of this county may be divided 

 into three general heads ; firil, thofe compofed of 

 flone, of Pagan origin, and which are accounted the 

 mofl ancient j fecondly, thofe which are to appearance 

 formed of earth, and have at leaft the femblance of 

 fuperior civilization ; thirdly, thofe which were effected 

 by the labours of a people acquainted with the art of 

 building, and which may be divided into monaflic and 

 military. 



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SECT. I. Thofe compofed of Stone, of Pagan origin^ and 

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 which arefuppofed to be the moft ancient. 



OF the firfl, or Pagan antiquities, there are three 

 diflinft kinds ; the ^airn, the circle of rude flone pil- 

 lars, and the cromlech, or altar flone. Two very re- 

 markable cairns, or heaps of rude flones, exifl in this 

 county ; one on the fummit of Slieve Croob mountain, 

 being near eighty yards in circumference at the bottom, 

 and about fifty in circumference at the top; on this 

 platform a number of fmaller cairns are raifed, of dif- 

 ferent heights and dimenfions ; the flones, of which 

 thefe are formed, are of various fizes, but moflly por- 

 table, and of the gritty kind. This is the largefl cairn 

 in the county .j but the other, near the little village of 



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