WESTROPr — Cists^ Dolmens, and PiUarH of East Clare. Ill 



notes by Mr. Borlasc, and that in Tyrcdagli Upper is noted in these 

 Proceedings." 



(24). KiLTANON (0. S. Sheet 27, Ko. 13), Tnlla Parish.— The 

 remains ar'e greatly defaced, and are not marked on the maps. Pour 

 stones stand in line, side by side, lying east and west on a low mound 

 among hawthorns to the south-east of the outer bridge on the front 

 avenue ; it is probably the remains of a small dolmen. The blocks 

 measure 4 feet by 30 inches to 24 inches by 7 inches ; the second and 

 third are each 4 feet 4 inches wide ; other dimensions similar. Another 

 similar slab lies to the west on the slope of the mound, which is 

 18 feet long. 



South of Kiltanon House, in a grove of trees, lies a sandstone block 

 resting on a slab, 3 feet by 4 feet. It has a bullaun, 13 inches across, 

 ground in it. This has been illustrated elsewhere in these pages. ^ 

 Three other slabs lie in the grove. The side of an undoubted dolmen 

 stands in a disiised burial-place for children, at no great distance from 

 the last remains. It tapers upwards from 9 feet to 5 feet 9 inches long, 

 and is 3 feet 8 inches high and 1 6 inches thick, of good sandstone, and 

 belonged, the old people say, to a "box" cist. 



(25). MiLTOwis- or Ballyvollen, Tulla Parish (0. S. Sheet 35, 

 No. 1). — Miltown is separated from Kiltanon by the Affock river 

 running through the range of caverns called the Toomines, so bom- 

 bastically described by John Lloyd in 1778 f but whichform an interest- 

 ing and picturesque natural gallery, lit by openings hung with ferns 

 and ivy,and with a gravelly strand beside the stream. The English name 

 of the townland is a mistranslation, as the place was O'Moylan's town, 

 and is called baile in niaoilm, from the family of O'Moylan or 

 Mullens, in the Macnamara's rental, 1390. It is named Ballyworryn 

 (Ballyvollyn) in the Inquisition 2)ost mortem of Donat Macnamara 

 lleagh in 1591, and Ballymoilin in the Edenvale "Survey of Clare" 

 about 1675. 



One of the finest groups of cists in Munster existed in human 

 memory among the craggy fields of Miltown. Unfortunately, 

 the majority have been "improved olf the face of the earth," and 

 only one remains perfect. I can faintly remember two others that 

 have since been destroyed, but which stood nearly perfect some twenty- 

 five years ago. The others were all in existence so late as 1839, 

 though some are not marked on the maps of the Ordnance Survey 

 of 1840. 



1 Pioc, R.I. A., Ser. iii., vol. iv., Plate ix., p. 547. 

 ^ " An Impartial Tour in Clare." 



