Westropp — Ciits, Dolmens, and Pillars of East Clare. 113 



till too late, for this dolmen -^as blown up by the tenant of the fann 

 in July, 1890. So far as I remember it and my sketch shows, the cist 

 was a small box of three slabs and a cover, and sloped towards the 

 south ; it lay east and west. 



{g) South from the last, in the angle made by the two roads 

 through MiltowB, lay three monuments marked on the map of 1839. 



The first is called "Giant's Grave" on the Sui-vey of 1840, and 

 has been noted by Eugene O'CiUTy in the Ordnance Survey Letters.^ 

 It lay to the north-east of the perfect one on. the Sheehan's fann, and 

 was in "the form of an ordinary grave (coffin), measuiing 19 feet 

 6 inches in length, 4 feet 5 inches in breadth at the foot, and 6 feet 

 4 inches in breadth at the head, the thickness of the stones all round 

 being incliided inthe measiu-ement. This was enclosed by a number 

 of large stones placed at a few feet distance, and following the form 

 of the gi'ave." He continues: "The grave of Sliabh Gearr, near 

 Glen CuUen, in the coianty Dublin, is of the same form with this, as 

 are some more in the eastern parishes of Clare. These long coffin- 

 like graves can hardly be supposed to belong to the same period of 

 time as the square chest-like and sometimes irregularly formed monu- 

 ments, to be met with in several parts of the Barony of Burren, &c." 



The long and enclosed type also occurs at Faunaroosca and Iskan- 

 cullin,- in the Burren. I do not know of any extant example in " the 

 eastern parishes of county Clare." Is'ot a trace of this monument is 

 now to be found, nor do I remember any in 1877. The site lies near 

 a nearly levelled rath. 



(Ji) Another nndescribed dolmen lay near the last ; it has been 

 removed. 



(^) Another monument, further to the west, has shared the same 

 fate ; it is shown as a cist, called " Denuot and Grania's Bed," lying 

 in the field near the junction of the by-road and the Tulla road, and 

 to the east of the former. 



{j) I was told that certain blocks on a little mound near the road 

 are the sides of a labba. If so, they are possibly not in situ, and may 

 have belonged to the neighbouring dolmen. 



(Jc) The sole intact survivor of this once fine group stands near the 

 last ones to the south of the main road from Xewgrove to Tulla, on the 

 Sheehan's farm, near the old lead and silver mine. It is thus noticed 



iMSS. E.I. A., U E 24, p. 255. 



^2 See Joumul of Eoyal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. xxxi. (1901), 

 pp. 277-285. 



