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and stones in a tilled field to the north of the second bohereen. Its 

 axis lies N.IST.E. and S.S.W., and it consisted of four roAvs of stones. 

 The complete portion is 24 feet long, and tapers eastward from 7 feet 

 4 inches to 5 feet 4 inches over all. The end slab remains to tha 

 west. Rows of stones stood about 3 feet from and parallel to each side 

 of the central enclosure. Only two remain to the north and three to 

 the south. It is even possible that the most western of the latter 

 belonged to the inner row. The longest slab remaining is 7 feet 

 6 inches long. If the minute sketch-plan on the Ordnance Survey- 

 map of 1840 may be trusted, two long blocks projected from the 

 southern side, and (apparently) a cover remained in sitn. It is still 

 called, as on the maps, "the Giant's Grave," but no fuller legend 

 siu'vives. 



This monument is one of a very interesting and wide-spread type, 

 though of less frequent occurrence than the cist type so common 

 among the dolmens of Ireland, Portugal, and Spain. ^ The long 

 graves are closely akin to (in some case identical with) the allees- 

 couvertes of France, and to passages in the tumuli in Scandinavia 

 and other parts of Europe, as far south as Sardinia. For comparison 

 -,,,„,«,_,„,„,,„,„ ^ with the Ballyogan gi'ave, we 



^^mum..^^^^,.,,^^^,^ ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^ othe^-s-fachtJieill, 



Cork, 12 feet long, 3 feet wide 

 inside ; Slieve-owen, Cork, 20 

 feet long, 3 feet to 1 foot wide, 



^■v_^ "^ "~"^ '^ '^^^ ^" with parallel rows of slabs at 



each side ; Burren, Cavan, two- 

 graves, respectively, 29 feet by 

 5 feet to 4 feet, and 17 feet 6- 

 Fig. 14.— Ballyogan. inches by 4 feet 9 inches to 3 



feet 2 inches ; Canyglass, Tyrone, 40 feet by 4 feet to 2 feet 3 inches^, 

 with parallel rows of slabs at each side ; Coolbuck, Fermanagh, 33 feet 

 by 4 feet to 3 feet ; Proleck, Louth, 22 feet 6 inches long, 6 feet to 

 2 feet 6 inches wide; and Moiglisha, near Arklow, in ^^icklow. With 

 these we may compare tlie " Hun's Beds " (Hiinebed), in the district 

 of Drenthe, in Holland, which consist of long chambers, outside of 

 which are parallel rows. Mr. Ferguson says these differ from those 

 of France and Ireland by ha^-ing closed ends ; but this is not the case. 



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1 "Dolmens of Ireland," vol. i., pp. 29, 31, 202, 214, 324, 317, 414; vol. ii. 

 p. 639. Ferguson " Rude Stone Monuments of all Countries, their age and uses "^ 

 (Ed. 1872), pp. 320, 356. 



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