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slaughters of men made between the Connellians and Eoghanians, 

 was this defeat of Cnoc Buidb." It seems probable that part, at least, 

 of the so-called Battle of Enockavoe was fought upon this townland in 

 Glenmornan. 



Knoekavoe, anciently called Ehock-bui&b, derives its name from 

 Bodb dearg, pronounced Boov dearg, a celebrated chieftain and sove- 

 reign of the Tuatha-De-Dananns. He was the father-in-law of Lir, 

 the fate of whose lovely daughters is one of the " Three Sorrows of 

 Story." 



Bodb dearg nourished about 3695 years ago, according to the An- 

 nals, and it is probable that these fragments of sepulchral urns are 

 at least as ancient. This locality was already noted, therefore, before 

 the Christian Era, and Pagan relics remain, as well as the name of the 

 De Danann chief. In the parish of Leckpatrick, in which they were 

 found, are to be observed some uninscribed monuments. Of the stone 

 of Patrick, Leac Patraic, nothing is known, if it be not the raised 

 stone near the chapel of Clough-coir — a name which describes the 

 solitary stone. Another Clough-coir is found at Pomeroy, and a sketch 

 of the stone is preserved amongst the antiquarian sketches in the Aca- 

 demy. In the same parish, in the townland of Ejllynaght, there is a 

 very perfect "rocking stone," or "giant's grave." This sepulchral 

 monument of some Pagan Chief — perhaps a contemporary of Bodb 

 Dearg — remains undisturbed. 



The kist, or grave, which yielded the sepulchral turns which I have 

 presented to the Academy, was nmnd in the townland of Gortacrom, 

 which bounds the hollow of the galloglasses ; adjacent to which is 

 the townland of Gortaleck, which derives its name from another pillar 

 stone. 



The grave in Gortacrom was destroyed, the urns broken, and some 

 of the bones removed before I arrived at the spot. But I saw the 

 flagstones with which the grave had been enclosed and covered. They 

 were still black with smoke on the inner surfaces, showing that a fire 

 had been made in this stone box before it had been covered in — the 

 upper flagstone serving probably as a back and screen for the fire. 

 Two empty urns stood at one end of the grave ; at the other end weru 

 a few white bones. The fragments of these which I saw were from 

 the human skeleton. These urns are very unlike in form and orna- 

 mentation: whilst No. 3 (Plate II.), six inches high, is elegant in shape 

 and elaborately ornamented, Bo. 2, six inches broad by seveninches high, 

 is not of a particularly graceful form, and has received no adornment ex- 

 cept the reiteration of the same square-pointed indentation. In one band 

 there is, however, a curious zigzag scrawl, as if there were an attempt 

 at writing. One fragment, No. 1, of a third vessel, was found, very 

 much larger, and altogether plain, with the exception of some ridgea 

 ruoning around it. This great urn lay in the gravel immediately out- 

 side the stone coffin, and had evidently been buried at the same period. 

 Nothing could be found of it but a fragment of the rim, which I had 

 disinterred from some clay which had been carted to the edge of the 



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