118 



Proceedhujs of the Roi/al Irish Academy. 



4 inches by 7 feet 9 inches. The axis of the cist lies north-west and 

 south-east. The dolmen is not marked on the maps.^ 



Feakle. 



Fealvle parish lies for the most part among the hills round Lough 

 Graney. It is a place almost devoid of history and of ancient build- 

 ings of the historical period, having been, it appears, densely wooded. 

 However, a few caliers and earth forts, together with six dolmens, 

 show that it was inhabited in a few spots. A curious plate of gold was 

 found near the village of Peakle about 80 years ago, and is described 

 in the sixth volume of the Academy's Trans- 

 actions in the following words : " A few years 

 ago Mr. Samuel Johns, a working silversmith 

 in Limerick, bought a very curious piece of 

 thin gold of this shape " [a figiu'e with con- 

 cave sides and straight ends is shown], "and 

 of an exceeding fine quality, supposed to be a 

 shield or breastplate. He got it from a 

 labourer, who found it in the parish of Feakle 

 and county Clare; it weighed upwards of 12 

 ounces. He gave £3 85. 3f?. per ounce for it, 

 and sold it afterwards to Mr. William D. 

 Moore, goldsmith, in Dublin, for £4 an ounce.- 

 The dolmens, except the wrecked one at 

 Corracloonbeg, have been fully described, but 

 must be briefly noted here. 



(32.) CoEBEHAGH or DRUiiAifDOORA, Feakle 

 Parish (0. S. Sheet 19, No. 3).— The upper 

 Labba and the rock- markings have been de- 

 scribed by Mr. Brogan' in these Proceedings. 

 The Labba on the ridge consisted, iu 1866, of 

 an enclosure tapering eastward. It measured internally 5 feet to 

 3 feet 6 inches by 15 feet 6 inches. A cover rested on the western 

 end, and another lay near the jS'.E. corner. The ends were nearly intact. 

 It had, besides the end blocks, threel ong ones to the east; and to the 

 west the middle was removed. The lower " lobba " lies in a tilled field 



Rock-Carving, Corbehagh. 



1 Plan, p. 109, fig. 7, supra; Plate vi., 2. 



2 Trans. E.I.A., vol. vi., p. 32. 



^Proc. R.I.A., vol. X. (1864-1866), p. 440, Plate xxix., views of upper dolmea 

 and carvings; plan of the first. The view of the carving been re-sketched 

 inaccurately. 



