Westropp — Chts, Bohneufi, (oul Pillan of East Clare. 01 



the north of the church. It .seems to have two chambers, but is much 

 buried in the cairn. The principal cell is formed of two massiAe 

 blocks rising' 3 feet above the stones and 7 feet lonj?, being about 

 3 feet apart and tapering eastward. The cover is nearly level, and is 

 a strong slab of gritstone, over a foot in thickness and about 7 feet 

 square. Eoth the north side and the east end are deeply buried in 

 small stones, which nearly fill the interior.' 



A large slab 6 feet 6 inches long protrudes from the cairn about 

 ■9 feet from tlie end of the cist, and may be the top of a second chamber ; 

 it does not seem to rest on side blocks. The dolmen is locally called 

 the " Lobba." The names of Dermot and Grania seem to have passed 

 out of local memory at this place. 



(4). Eallyog AN,2 Kilraghtis Parish (O.S. Sheet 26, Xo. 1 0).— On the 

 •eastern slope of the same hill, in the adjoining townland of Ballyogan, 

 lie the foundations of a large and massive stone ring-wall called 

 Cahereiny ; it has the remains of a souteiTain, but is most completely 

 <lefaced. A fort-like knoll of rock juts up not far away, rising from 

 a cultivated field. 



(a) The bohereen to the west of the caher did not exist when the 

 O. S. survey of 1840 took place ; but the older labourers remember its 

 •construction, and state that this led to the removal of a "Giant's 

 Grave" very similar to and not far from the existing monument. It 

 was a " long grave," as we learned from two independent descriptions, 

 ■each side consisted of five or six blocks, across the middle of which 

 rested a large slab 5 feet or 6 feet each way. There had once been " two 

 other covers," but few remembered them at the time of the demolition. 

 Only for the positive statements of the men and the corroborative 

 recollections of the late Mr. Pierce O'Brien of Dun-a (who gave 

 me much kind aid when studying the dolmens of his neighbour- 

 hood), I should have suspected some confusion with the existing 

 ^' giant's grave " which it so closely resembled. I was shown the 

 ■approximate site a couple of fields from the latter and to the north- 

 west. No antiquities were unearthed in the removal. 



{h) The existing " long grave " lies nearly covered with gi'aes 



' See plan, p. 88, fig. 4, supra. 



2 Ballyogan, in 1640-1668, was the residence of Maoilin ^I'Bioily (MacBnioJin) 

 and his wife, Jfargaiet Molony, whose son, the well-known monastic historian, 

 Anthony " Bruodinus," was born there. It is called Gortnefiinchin in the 1675 

 Book of Snrvey at Edenvale. " Ashgrove " in the townland is probably a niistrans- 

 hxtion of this name. We may note that the adjoining townland Bearnafunshin is 

 also called Ballyfinsh.an in the 1703 estate-maps of the Earl of Thomond. 



