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a stone circle, standing on the southern slope of the table-land which 
occupies the centre of the parish; some of the stones are prostrate, 
and all are much weather-worn and bear marks of extreme age. 
North-east from this, about a quarter of a mile off, and on a site com- 
manding an extensive view of the valley in which are the castle and 
ruins of Kilmaclenine, are the remains of a sepulchral mound, marked 
on the ordnance map as ‘‘ the Cuthoge.” The local tradition is, that 
about sixty years ago, when the mound was perfect, the farmer on 
whose land it stood, believing it to be a limestone rock, built a lime- 
kiln hard by, and proceeded to quarry the stone. The limekiln still 
remains, but no lime was ever burned in it, as the farmer found only 
earth and small stones, until he approached the surface of the ground, 
when he came on a tomb composed of large slabs. In this was a 
skeleton, and by its side a sword and some beads. All these have 
disappeared, but the tomb remains, now denuded of its covering of 
earth, as in the sketch. (Plate VI.) 
This mound appears to be the one mentioned in the Roll under the 
name of ‘‘Knokan Glassenet que dicitur Knokan Lepotes,’’? and the 
adjoining townland and farm are still called ‘‘ Knockaun.”’ 
The descriptive name ‘‘ Glassenet’’ is now forgotten, and what it 
was meant to represent I am unable to say, the word having been 
written by one unacquainted with the language, and not successful 
in catching the pronunciation. I have been tempted to think it 
might represent slop fine, which, according to the Supplement to 
O’Donovan’s Dictionary, means ‘‘ the foreign tribe.’’ This would derive 
some slight support from the local belief that it is the tomb of 
Turgesius—the Dane, as usual, taking the place of the more ancient 
invader. But all this is uncertain, as is also the meaning of the 
alternative name, of which we can only say that according to the usage 
of the Roll it represents the name by which the Knockaun was known 
to the English settlers in the thirteenth century. 
By the side of this tomb, where part of a very ancient road still 
remains, was held in the last century the great fair of Kilmac- 
lenine. In a Report on the State of the District around Mallow,? 
prepared for the Royal Dublin Society in 1775, the following 
passage occurs:—‘‘ There are three remarkable fairs for horses in 
this neighbourhood—one at Kilmacleenin, four miles north-west of 
Mallow, on the 21st of June; one at Cahirmee, four miles north of 
Mallow, on the 12th of July ; and one at Kildarary, nine miles north- 
east of Mallow, on the 3rd of September.”? The two latter fairs still 
exist, but Kilmaclenine, having been transferred to Ballyclough some 
years ago, has since become extinct. 
From these remains which have been noticed, as well as the un- 
usual number of Lises and Raths in the neighbourhood, and especially 
2 Pipa, p. 18. 
3 Privately printed by Sir D. J. Norreys, from a MS. found amongst his papers. 
