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Held. We have thus three urns, altogether dissimilar in shape and 

 ornamentation — indicating delusively different epochs of workmanlike 

 skill, yet all the produce of one period. The fact of the urns being- 

 void of ashes is remarkable : evidently, in this case, the ashes of the 

 dead were not collected to be placed in these vessels. The remains of 

 the burned bones were at the other end of the stone coffin ; and part 

 of one had got a blue tint. It came of its great antiquity, for an ana- 

 lysis showed that no copper nor iron was present ; as there was a dark 

 stain on the interior of the urns, and a trace on the outside of one as if 

 the contents had overflowed, it is possible that soft parts — the heart 

 or " brain-ball" — might have been placed in them, and the urns then 

 set in the funeral fire. 



Although I could not find that any mound or cairn surmounted 

 this grave, yet there may have been one, for the Ordnance Surveyors 

 appear to have chosen this very spot for one of their stations. It is 

 435 feet above the sea level, and the place of their figures on the map 

 marks where the grave was. However, it was also the highest part 

 of the field, and commands a fine view. 



Proceeding up the glen eastwards, we cross the stream on a wooden 

 footbridge to the south bank, nearly opposite a chapel. This is the 

 townland of Enocknahorna, or the barley hill, an appellation on which 

 some additional light is thrown by the frequent reference in the 

 Ordnance Map "to ruins of ancient potteen stills." Ascending the side 

 of the glen in the direction of Owenreagh mountain, I came with my 

 guide to a large circle of flagstones raised on end. Towards the east- 

 south-east was an entrance passage, with flagstones on either hand, and 

 one laid across, whose edge just appeared above the soil. What is 

 peculiarly remarkable about this (which is not set down on any maps) 

 is, that it had been disinterred in the process of turf cutting. My 

 guide had himself been cutting turf over it some fifty years ago. 

 There were two feet of bog above the top of the flagstones, which are 

 three feet high. When they dug down upon it the circle was per- 

 fect, all the stones standing and in good order. When we saw it 

 last January, it had suffered some injury ; several of the stones had 

 been removed or broken, and a fence had been run through it. 



It occurred to me, on inspecting it, that this circle might have 

 been the Chieftain's Pound. 



Xot far from it, in one direction, was a clay dun, and in another 

 direction a cairn of stones. A vast number of these stones had been 

 removed to make a fence, and thus I was enabled to perceive some 

 upright and horizontal flagstones which they had covered. But there 

 was still a great quantity left, partially covering this monument. 

 James Ward, my guide, had been wheeling turf over this buried monu- 

 ment in the year 1812. The dun, also, had been covered over with 

 bog. 



Be it remarked that the circle of flagstones was situated on a gentle 

 knoll or eminence, so that there could have been no formation of marsh 

 or flue bog-. 



