WESTKOPr — Cists, Dolmens, and Pi Hays of Eaal Clare. ll.> 



our islands, as at Mont d'Algcda, in Portugal, and at dolmens in 

 Syria and Moab. Easins are found near overturned dolmens near the 

 site of Dan. Other basins are found in Palestine,' possibly raarkin"- 

 the sites of sacred pillars, stone circles, and dolmens, destroyed by 

 Israelitisb reformers when they "removed tlie high places and bralie 

 the pillars." The Newgrove monument has been described and 

 figured by Mr. Borlase, and also by me in these Proceedings} In the 

 plantation near the river stands a pillar marking the mearing with 

 Tyredagh. 



(27). PoMEELA (0. S. Sheet, No. 34).— Two little cists lay, I am 

 told, near the stream not far from the remains of Pomerla Castle. I 

 could not find tbem ; but believe that, at any rate, one exists. 



(28). MoiTMOEE, Tulla Parish (0. S. Sheet 35, :N"o. 5).— A small 

 cist of four stones and a cover, called " Dermot and Crania's Bed," 

 lay near the north-east angle of the townland, but has been removed 

 since 1839. 



Another cist is intact, but buried in field rubbish, and with a 

 hawthorn growing on it; it was also called "Dermot and Crania's 

 Bed" on the Survey of 1840. It is 10 feet long and 6 feet 8 inches 

 wide externally, and 5 feet 4 inches internally, at the east end. The 

 north block (so far as I could measure) is 6 feet 4 inches long, and 

 8 inches thick ; the south the same length, and 14 inches thick. Several 

 cover blocks lie on the top, the most western being 4 feet north and 

 south, and 3 feet east and west, the most eastern 6 feet 4 inches by 

 6 feet across.^ Across the stream, near Moymore Bridge, the group 

 of small cists, already described,* lie in Caherloghan. 



(29). Maeyforx^ or Lismehan, Tulla Parish (0. S. Sheet 35, 

 No. 3). — The townland frequently appears in notices of the 

 Macnamara lands and castles, but it bears the name of the 



1 Conder's " Hetli and Moab," pp. 230-249. Cups and circles appear on rude 

 stone monuments even in Fiji. 



2 " Dolmens of Ireland,'' vol. i., pp. 89, 90, plan and illustration, Proc. 

 R.I.A., ser. iii., vol. iv., p. 547, Plate ix., illustration. Also plan, p. 109, fig. 5, 



^Plan, p. 109, fig. 6, supra. 



*Plan, p. 109, supra. 



5 The castle is said to have been built by Mahon Mac Shane IMncnamara early 

 in the fifteenth century (S. H. O'Grady's Catalogue of Irish MSS. in the British 

 Museum, p. 73). The modern name was given to the house about 1760 by Ealph 

 Westropp, of Lismehan, in honour of his wife Mary Johnson, and, following (it 

 is said) the bad example of Eobert "Westropp, who renamed Fertane as " Fort- 

 Anne," after his wife Anna, some fifty years earlier. 



