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have been removed, and used for various purposes. Not more than a 
dozen of the piles now project above the surface, and that only about one 
or two feet. The drain just formed a tangent to the circle of piles, 
touching it on the east, where some of the piles were dragged up on 
being laid bare. During the draining operations a single-piece oak 
canoe was found, about thirty yards from the island on the north-west 
side. It was in tolerable preservation, and was removed to Portglenone 
House, where it remained for some time, till Lord O’ Neill claimed and 
had it removed to Shane’s Castle, where it is said to be still in existence. 
The following articles have been found in this island from time to time: 
two iron swords; a small anvil, very bright and clean; a pair of scales, 
and several small hammers; several gold pins ; metal dishes; small axe- 
heads; an iron cauldron, of a low, dilated shape; and a stone of a yel- 
lowish-white colour, beautifully polished, about twelve inches long, 
three and a half broad, and two thick, accurately squared at the sides, 
having a round hole about an inch and a quarter deep, and half an inch 
in diameter at each end, the top surface and one of the sides being co- 
vered with carved devices. Lord O’ Neill obtained the swords; the an- 
vil, scales, and hammers were sold by the finder, for trifling sums, to a 
pedlar and rag-gatherer. The iron cauldron is in use as a potato pot. A 
quern also, which was found, is preserved in a neighbouring house. 
The polished stone was given by the finder to a friend, to make a ‘rub- 
bing-bone’ for his web. It is stated that a few feet below the present 
surface of the bed of the lough, a paved causeway of stone, about five 
feet broad, leads from the western margin of the lough across to the island. 
This establishes a striking similarity between the crannoge and some of 
the Swiss pfahlbauten. 
“TY. ‘ Tuogh de Clinaghartie:—Et est in eodem le tuogh quidam lacus 
alias stagnum vocatus Loughinchefeaghny, in quo est insula similiter 
fortificata.’ 
‘This territory comprised the parish of Kilconriola, with that portion 
of Ahoghill lying east of the Main Water, and represents the eastern 
section of the barony of Lower Toome. The name is preserved in the 
neighbourhood of Ballymena, in the form Glenagharty, and one side of 
the first Presbyterian meeting-house there used to be called ‘the Gle- 
nagharty aisle.’ It is the Irish Clann Pacapoa, and refers to the 
sept who once occupied the tract.* About two miles and a half north- 
north-west of Ballymena the new road to Ballymoney passes through the 
townland of Loughmagarry, having on the right a low-lying rank mea- 
dow, which in winter becomes very moist.| This was formerly a lake 
similar to those above described until it was drained in the latter half 
of the last century by Mr. Hugh Campbell of Ballygarvey, the tenant 
under Mr. Adair. The island stood at the side of the lake, remote 
from the new road, and near the western margin, where the bank rises 
* See Reeves’s ‘‘ Eccles. Antiq.,” p. 344. 
+ Ordnance Survey, county of Antrim, sheet 32. 
