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how after his statement the huts were shown, marked on the Ordnance Sun'ey 

 maps, some twenty years earlier. Such statements, for, or against, the 

 antiquity of primitive stnietures, should be received with caution. We 

 have retorted crushing facts on facetious dealers in mendacity on more than 

 one similar oc-casion, tlirough our would-be misleaders being imaware of 

 records of the structures, long before their lifetime, accessible to all 

 students. 



Clogb«uiu, Ac, Ariomore. 



The oldest seeming tj-pe is certainly what Mr. CJeorge Kinahan calls a 

 " fosleac," " ligatrealih," or slab-house. We Ijave noted one in the Black Fort : 

 it i.i cl"<sely like a dolmen ; indee«l, whether the repute«l cists in the Aran Isles 

 be really such, and not huts,' remains to Ije seen, but the common legend of 

 Dennot and Grania attaches to one at Killeany, and another at Baile na sean. 

 However, huts and enclosures of slabs set on end are apparently very easily 

 raised in later days ; ami even a pigsty or dog-kennel of slabs like small 

 cists are not necessarily a centurj' old. 



' WTjere exactly simiUr ctniclures in Co. CUre were found buri»l in (aims, the argument a* 

 to their difleience f rotn free Maoding eTOall•^du, or that fr jm t'leir being on rock, doe* Utile to prore 

 them non-9cpulchi«l. 



