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rocks is sufficiently marked in other places ; as at Carrigapliuca, in 

 Cork, Clochaunapliiica in Kerry, the Dun of Clopoke in the Queen's 

 County," and the dolmen of Poulaphuca in the Burren, and other 

 examples might be cited. 



(2). KiLTOTDAN-, Inchicronan Parish (0. S. Sheet 26, '^o. 14). — A 

 defaced dolmen, which occupies a beautiful position on the summit of 

 an abrupt grassy hill, with a fine riew of two lakes and the ivied peel- 

 tower called O'Brien's Castle. To the north, at the foot of the hill and 

 near Durra House, are the very ancient graveyard of Kilvoydan,^ with 

 a large basin stone and a diy holy well, and the remains of a ring fort. 



The dolmen is to all appearance an example of the very curious 

 (though scarcely credible) type which occurs near Louisburg, in Mayo, 

 as figured by Mr. G. H. Kinahan, of which, as Mr. Borlase points out, 

 examples occur in Portugal, These structures are formed of sloping 

 blocks overlapping till they nearly meet at the top, and then roofed 

 with small slabs. The section of the Kilvoydan cist closely resembles 

 this type, as may be seen in the illustration (p. 88, fig. 2, supra) ; but 

 after careful consideration it seems more probable that the slipping 

 inward of the sides tilted the massive cover over the north side, against 

 which it now leans. The cell is 12 feet long, with single blocks to the 

 north and south. These measui'e, respectively, 9 feet 6 inches by 18 

 inches thick and 5 feet by 20 inches thick, being at present only 

 about 3 feet high. The cover measures 11 feet 8 inches long, about 

 6 feet wide, and 22 inches thick. All the slabs are of massive gritstone 

 or conglomerate." 



(3). Ballymaconna, Kilraghtis Parish (0. S. Sheet 26, No. 1 0). — Not 

 far to the west of Kilvoydan three other monuments lie near Kih'aghtis 

 chiu'ch, and with the first named may be called the Kilraghtis group. 

 The district is diversified and interesting, foi-med by a group of low 

 rounded hills with a curious fortress-like outcrop of stratified rock at 

 Dromgloon. The church was called " Kilrathusa " in the Papal tax- 

 ation of 1302, and is at present a plain building of the later fifteenth 

 century.* 



The cist lies in the remains of a cairn on the slope of the hill to 



1 Not the Kilvoydan near Corofin described by Dr. MacNamara in Journal 

 ll.S.A.L, vol. XXX. (1900). 



- See section and plan, p. 88, figs. 2 and 3, supra. 



3 The fields in which these dolmens stand (we -were told) were a few years ago 

 covered by an assembly of myriads of rats. The great meeting was held for several 

 days, and then broke up, and marched eastward in squadrons which must have 

 dispersed as they went, for they could only be traced for a couple of miles. 



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