116 Proceedings of tlie Royal Irish Academy. 



■O'Meelians, who were possibly its earlier owners. Liop mio&acani 

 .appears in tlie Macnamara rental of circa 1390.^ The fragments of 

 the destroj^ed castle, built about 1440, lie on what seems to have been 

 an earlier entrenchment. Two other lisses are on the rising ground to 

 the south ; a third on the beautifully wooded hill behind Maryfort 

 House. The slight remains of a double earth-fort lie in the marsh near 

 the castle ; and on the higher field, east of the castle, where the trace 

 of an old road crosses the avenue, is a small cist. It stands on a 

 grassy knoll in the remains of a mound. The ends are gone, the 

 south side has fallen, and only one block, the north side, and the 

 cover, still leaning upon it, can be measured. They are two lime- 

 stone blocks ; the cover is 5 feet 6 inches east and west, 6 feet 3 inches 

 north and south, by 9 inches ; the side measures 4 feet 8 inches by 

 .3 feet 6 inches by 3 inches, and lies E.N.E. and W.S.W. It has 

 been illustrated by Mr. Borlase ^ from my sketch ; but the back- 

 ground has got rather altered in the engraver's hands. 



(30). EossLAHA, Tulla Parish (0. S. Sheet 27, No. 16).— This, 

 when I sketched and planned it, was a fine and fairly perfect dolmen, 

 on a low, grassy hill, overlooking the Castle Lake and Maryfort Lake, 

 overhung by the wooded hill already named, and with an open view 

 to the hills behind Feakle. It was not far from the "rude ribs of 

 ^;he ancient castle " of Fertanemore or Eosslara. It fell naturally in 

 the spring of 1898. Its blocks lie untouched and almost overgxown 

 in the bushes beside the fence and hedge along the top of the hill. 

 The cover measm-es 9 feet to 7 feet 6 inches by 6 feet 6 inches by 

 14 inches to 16 inches. It was supported by two stones to the south 

 and three to the north, forming a cist 12 feet 6 inches long, and 

 4 feet 8 inches to 4 feet wide, and about 4 feet high. The ends were 

 removed, which, with the lowering of the field (so frequently notice- 

 able at dolmens), led to the settlement and collapse of the monument. 

 It is figured and described from my notes by Mr. Borlase,^ but. as 

 usual, the views have suffered in re-sketching. 



This completes, so far as I am aware, the dolmens in the parish 

 of Tulla. Lewis's " Topographical Dictionary," however, mentions 



^ There is a cliarter of Tiege i Meadchain, son of Conor, to the Macnaniaras, 

 dated 1517 (Catalogue of Irish MSS. in the British Museum, S. H. O'Grady, 

 p. 155 ; Egerton Charters, Xo. 97). 



2 " Dolmens of Ireland," vol. i., p. p. 94, view. Plan, p. 109, fig. 9, mpra. 



^Ibid., vol. i. p. 93, view, plan and elevations. Also plan, p. 109, fig. 14, 

 siijjra. 



