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{a) jJ'J'ot far nortli of the picturesque and ivied peel-toTver of 

 Milto-^m lies among tlie crags a large, rugged block of limestone, 

 supported on lesser stones. It is apparently artificial, and formed a 

 cist of drfferent and ruder type tlian the others in the townland. 



(5) In the Kennedy's farms, to the west of the side road, stood in 

 my recollection a fine dolmen. It has heen described to me by a 

 farmer, who remembered it as "the tallest labba in the place; a 

 great table of a rock on top of four other stones as high as youi- 

 shoulder" (say over 5 feet high). " It was open below ; the top slab 

 was very thick, and it stood on the highest point of the field some 

 distance from the fence." My sister, Mrs. O'Callaghan, says that it 

 closely resembled the perfect one on Mr. Sheeban's faim, and was of 

 four thick blocks, with a large cover, being over 5 feet high, and 

 partly covered with thick ivy. These descriptions are independent of 

 each other, and, as will be seen, closely correspond. My own recollec- 

 tions of this monument are very vague. It is called " Dermot and 

 Grania's Bed" on the map. Unfortunately, I cannot find that any 

 sketch or measiu'ement is preserved ; and it is only shown as a cist on 

 the 0. S. map, and lies E.jST.E. and W.S.'W". It was removed about 

 twenty years ago. 



(c) In what is now the same field are the mutilated remains of 

 two smaller dolmens. In the more northern (so far as I could 

 examine it through a thick overgrowth of sloe-bushes and brambles), 

 the top slab is from 31 inches to 36 inches thick, and has crushed 

 down the south side which lies under it — if, indeed, these are not the 

 remnants of the destroyed monument last described ; though I was 

 told that this was not the case. 



{d) In the ditch south of the same field is a defaced little cist, 

 12 feet long and 4 feet 9 inches wide. The sides and ends remain; 

 and a cover-slab, now partly buried, lies on the north-west slab. The 

 south side lies E.N.E. and W.S.W.^ 



(e) Another cist, facing north-west and south-east, lay south-west 

 from the last group towards the Kewgrove Bridge.^ It has been long 

 removed ; and I could not get any very clear description, or the date of 

 its destruction ; but it seems to have been a ruined " box " of slabs. 



(/) To the east of the side road was another dolmen, which I 

 sketched about 1883. Unfortunately, the many opportunities of visit- 

 ing Miltown led to my postponing my intended survey of its remains 



1 Plan, p. 109, fig. 8, siqyra. 



^ It is marted over the I of the townland name on the 1840 map. 



