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these slabs are of granite, not limestone, and thousands of similar slabs 
of exactly similar granite will be found in this immediate vicinity ; 
also in the neighbouring portions of the county Carlow, and also in 
the counties of Wicklow and Wexford, on the surface of which I have 
not been able to find any cups or channels at all like those on these 
covering-stones. I therefore am forced to believe that the cups and 
furrows were originally cut artificially on these stones, though they 
may have been more or less modified by weathering. If these furrows 
and cups are allowed to have had an artificial origin, they must have 
been made for some special purpose, which seems to me to have been 
in connexion with pagan sacrificial rites; and as the stones slope due 
south, I would suggest that they may possibly have had some con- 
nexion with sun worship. The conclusions I have arrived at are, that 
the structure was both a sacrificial altar and a habitation, thus 
partaking at the same time of the nature of a normal cromleac, or 
Druidical altar, and of a fosleac, or flag dwelling-place. Figure 2, 
Plate XI., sketch of the cromleac looking S.8.E. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES IX., X., anp XI, 
Illustrating Ur. Kinahan’s Paper on Megalithic Structures, Counties 
Wicklow and Carlow. 
Plate IX., Fig. 2.—Plan of Labbanasigha, Wicklow, Sheet 42. 
a and 6. Cover-stones. 
Plate X., Fig. 1.—Plan of structure, Myshall Hill, Carlow, Sheet 17, 
_ Fig. 2.—Plan of Accaun Cromleac. 
A and B. Cover-stones. 
e. Chamber. 
ad. Alcove on'the east of the entrance. 
e and /f. Standing stones at the sides of the alcove. 
g. Standing stone to the west of the entrance. 
Plate XI., Fig. 1.—Cover-stones, Accaun Cromleac, showing cups and furrows. 
a. Portion of stone that has been split off. 
b. Here there evidently have been fires lit in recent times. 
It is said that some years ago, before the land was 
cleared of the natives, and made into a cattle farm, the 
St. John’s Eve or Midsummer fires used to be lit on this 
coyer-stone. This portion of the stone is flat, but its 
surface is very irregular, on account of the effects of 
these fires. 
e. A naturally weathered joint line. 
Both coyer-stones slope due south; the north one at 
about an angle of 15°, and the south one at an angle 
of 20°. <All the furrows that come down to the edges of 
the stones are continued from the surfaces down the 
sides, which could scarcely be due solely to weathering. 
A Fig. 2.—Sketch of Accaun Cromleac, looking §.S.E. 
A and B. Cover-stones. 
d. Alcove to the east of entrance. 
e. Chamber. 
e and f. Standing stones forming the alcove. 
g. Standing stone to the west of entrance. 
