114 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



by O'Cuny in the Orcluance Survey Letters : " There are seven giants' 

 graves in Miltown (Baile Ui Mhaoilin, O'Mullen's town), one of 

 them near Green's House/ in perfect preservation, of an irregular 

 square fOrm, serving as a pig-sty, with a rick of turf built over it at 

 present." Then after clescribiug the giant's grave already given, he 

 adds : " The other graves in this townland deserve no particular 

 description." Students will regret that this feeling towards pre- 

 historic remains dominates the Letters on Clare, and deprives us of 

 much valuable information, then easily accessible and recoverable. 



In this case the house and yards have disappeared, leaving no trace, 

 while the cromlech remains. It is a low, clumsy cist, of five massive 

 gritstone blocks, and is capped with, a deep heap of earth, covered with 

 a rich growth of shamrocks and flowers. The cell measures 9 feet 

 6 inches by 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet, tapering eastward. The west, 

 north, south, and east blocks are, respectively, 7 feet by 2 feet by 

 If feet; 9 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 9 inches by 1 foot 9 inches ; 51- feet 

 by 2 feet 9 inches by 18 inches, and 5 feet by 1 foot 3 inches by 

 18 inches. Its axis lies slightly to the south of last. It has been 

 described and illustrated by Mr. Borlase from his own notes.^ 



There are some large slabs in the fence of a field south of the road, 

 some distance to the west of the last. 



(26). ]N"ewgrove or Ballyslattery, Tulla Parish (0. S. Sheet 34, 

 jS"©. 4). — This townland was assigned by the Mac Shanes to the 

 O'Slatterys (from whom it takes its Irish name) in 1493, by a deed 

 published in the Transactions of this Academy.^, It adjoins Kiltanon 

 and Tyredagh, lying across the Aflock river from Miltown. The 

 " giant's grave," as it was called in 1839, lies in the demesne to the 

 west of the avenue; it is now called " Lobba 'yiermudh." It is 

 nearly perfect, and is a large cist about 5 feet by 9 feet internally, 

 with a buUaun ground in a block at the east end, and a surrounding 

 fence of slabs set on end, like the demolished "giant's grave" in 

 Miltown and others. Three are still standing to the north and two to 

 the south. The cover measui'es 9 feet by 9 feet 6 inches by 18 inches 

 thick. The basin stone found with this and other Irish dolmens is a 

 very interesting featui'e. Similar basins occur with dolmens outside 



^ Colonel O'Callaghan, the o-wner, tells me that Green's holding is now the 

 Sheehan's farms. The leases are now at Maryfort. This clearly identifies the 

 monument described by 0' Curry. 



^ "Dolmens of Ireland," vol. i., p. 91, plan and view. Also plan, p. 109, fig. 3, 

 supra. 



3 Transactions R. I. A., vol. xv. (Antiquities), p. 52. 



