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east and Tvest, and that it tapers eastward from 7 feet 6 inches to 

 6 feet 6 inches in 20 feet. The axis lies north-east and south- west.^ 



(23).^ Tyeedagh Lowee, Tulla Parish fO. S. Sheet 27, JS^'o. 13).— 

 T^ot far away from the last in the adjoining townland, separated from 

 Tyredagh Upper hythe road from Carrahan to Tulla, is a large dolmen 

 lying in one of the back yards of Tyredagh House. Borlase has 

 published very roughly a view and sketch-plan from my notes. The 

 dolmen is from 16 feet to 19 feet long, and tapers eastward from 

 5 feet 1 inches to 3 feet 1 1 inches internally, the sides sloping in the 

 same direction. A fine horse-chestnut tree growing in the enclosure 

 has helped to destroy the western end. Thi-ee of the side blocks 

 remain respectiTely to the north and south, with two others projecting 

 from them, and two end blocks to the west and one to the east. Thi'ee 

 large slabs of the broken and rather thin cover remain.^ 



In the adjoining field are the reputed remains of another dolmen, 

 being two rows of rather small blocks lying east and west, and nearly 

 parallel. jS^o cover remains ; and I am more than doubtful as to the 

 nature of the structure. 



In a plantation to the east, beyond the yards and garden, is a 

 small earthen ring-mound, far too small to be a rath. One can only 

 recall the tomb of Dathi at Eathcroghau and the passage in Keating's 

 " Tliree Bitter Shafts of Death "^ (1620), where it is stated that the 

 pagans were laid facing the east, and a small rath raised round 

 with a leacht or caii'n, or an earthen rath without a monument. Xo 

 stones remain in the Tp-edagh ring. 



i In the field still farther eastward is a pillar slab, 9 feet high, made 

 of a very thin flag of limestone, tapering upwards from 31 inches to 

 24 inches wide* and 5 inches broad.^ A graveyard lies near it to the 

 north, and north of the latter, at the opposite side of the road and in 

 line with Tyredagh Castle, Hes a large sandstone boulder with a bullaun 

 or basin ground into it. 



The dolmens in the two townlands have been described from my 



1 Plan, p. 109, fig. 1, supra. 



2 Plan, p. 109, fig. 2, supra. 



3 See note in "The Battle of Gabhra" (edited by X. O'Kearney) in the 

 publications of the Ossianie Society ; also Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland 

 Society (R- S. A. I.) Jonnial, 1854, for " Tulaehs" or burial-mounds. 



i * Misprinted bfect in Proceedings of the Eoyal Irish Academy, ut infra. 



5 " Dolmens of Ireland," i., p. 88, sketches and plans; the sketch of the 

 dolmen of Tyredagh Lower being very rude and defective. Proc. E. I. A., 

 Ser. iii., vol, iv., Plate ix., p. 546. 



