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it that he might not die seated or lying down.''^ " Cormac's Glossary " 

 also has a sentence: " They are not neighhours till their properties are 

 meared with boundaries of pillar- stones." A manuscript in the Library 

 of Trinity College, Dublin, says : ' ' Land is secured by the joint momoiial 

 of two territories — i.e., the ogam on the gallan." Unfortunately the 

 Classagh pillars are uninscribed.^ 



(8). Magh Adhaiu, Clooney Parish (0. S. Sheet 34, No. 12). — Near 

 this fully-described^ place of inauguration, at the opposite side of the 

 stream from the moat, cairn, and basin-stone, and in the townland of 

 Corbally, is a rude limestone pillar. It measures 6 feet 3 inches high, 

 by 3 feet to 2 feet 6 inches wide, and 10 inches thick. It stands in 

 line with the mote and its sloping descent and the cairn. Between 

 it and the stream is a shattered block set firmly in the ground, and 

 possibly the base of another pillar. Another stone lies near Drumbaun 

 fort, two fields to the west of Moyars Park. 



(9). TooNAGH, Clooney Parish (0. S. Sheet 34, No. 8).— Not far to 

 the north-east of Magh Adhair, near the same rivulet, is a group of 

 defaced cists. They are not marked even on the new map, but were 

 shown me by the llev. J. E. Greer, of Tulla. They lie on the 1899 

 map at the apex of a practically equilateral triangle, resting on the 

 main road from Clooney to Tulla, between the bench-marks 121 and 

 120-4, and south of the road. The remains of two, if not of three, 

 defaced cists lie in a furzy hollow near a small brook. 



(ff) Of the western cist only the sides remain ; the northern is still 

 standing, a coarse gritstone block, 7 feet 6 inches long and 4 feet 

 8 inches by 20 inches ; beside it lies a slab (the fallen south side 

 10 feet by 4 feet 3 inches by 20 inches); the axis of the standing 

 slab lies S.S.E. and N.N.W. 



{h) Another thick block, 5 feet long and 16 inches tliick, set north 

 and south, lies at a short distance to the north-east, and may be the 

 west end of a cist. 



(c) On higher ground, to the north of the last, are the remains of 

 a little cist. The south side lies north-west and south-east, and is 

 about 6 feet long, 32 inches high, and 12 inches thick. The north 

 side has been much broken, and lies from 4 feet 4 inches to 4 feet 



1 Revue Celligtie, vol. iii., p. 182. From the " Book of Leinster," p. 178. 



2 "Cormac's Glossary" (ed. W. Stokes), p. 84, MSS., T.C.D., H. 3, 18, 

 p. 230. For "meerstones " see Notes ou theLandnamabok (by llev. E. T. Elhvood), 

 p. 59. 



^ R.S.A.I., vol. xxxi. (1891, p. 463 n.), with illustrations. Proc. E.I. A., vol. 

 iv., ser. iii., p. 55. 



