Westuopp — CidSy Dolmens, and Pillars of Easi Clare. 119 



aud is a low massive cist of seven blocks, measuring internally 8 feet 

 2 inclies long and 6 feet 5 inches to 3 feet 3 inches, and beyond the 

 end slab to 1 feet 8 inches wide, tapering boldly eastward, with a 

 cover block 11 feet long, 8 feet 2 inches to 2 feet 2 inches wide, 

 and 16 inches thick. ^ Not far away, the outline of a footstep and a 

 curiously combined ornament, formed of spirals, loops, and curt'cd 

 ends, are incised in the natural rocks. I have described the remains 

 and given a sketch in a previous volume of the Proceedings.'^ 



(33). Balltckoum, Feakle Parish (0. S. Sheet 19, No. 16).— This 

 important group stands in the basin of a mountain bog, and consists of 

 the long dolmen Altoir Ultach ; the cist Tobergi-ania,* once considered 

 to be a holy well and a long cist found by me, near the first. The first 

 two are marked on the 0. S. maps of 1840, and described, though 

 vaguely and incorrectly, by O'Curry. This account was published by 

 Mr. Borlase, who did not visit them. They are noted at some length 

 in the Proceedings of this Academy for 1900.* I repeat the plans. 



(34). CoEEACLOo>-BEG, Feakle Parish (0. S. Sheet, 20, No. 14). — A 

 steep ridge (crowned with a small table of rock, closely resembling a 

 dolmen, but natui*al) rises 629 feet above the sea, and commands a broad 

 view to the Shannon, the Fergus, and Lough Derg, and across the lake- 

 studded plain to Slieve Bernagh. Towards the north, we look up the 

 valley to Lough Graney and the woods of Caher, and, down the slope, 

 but on the brow of a bluff, we see the defaced dolmen. 



A few shattered blocks and a row of three slabs (each 3 feet long, 

 and a fourth, 5 feet long, set deeply in the ground, and running east 

 and west for 14 feet) alone remain. Two loose blocks, 6 feet 6 inches 

 by 2 feet, and 3 feet 3 inches by 1 foot 3 inches by 5 inches, lie near. 

 It is shown as a line of scattered blocks on the survey of 1840, 



TOMGEANEY. 



(35). Cloghlea, Tomgi-aney Parish (0. S Sheet 28, No, 12).— 

 South of the road, on the bounds of the rectory grounds, stands a pillar 

 called Cloghlea. The slab is 6 feet 7 inches high, and about 4 feet 



1 Plan, p 109, fig. 4, supra. 



- Proc. K.I. A., ser. iii., vol. iv., p. 546. (Inaccurate). They seem to have been 

 independently discovered and a query inserted in the Journal E.S.A.I., vol. xxi., 

 p. 86, in 1890, by Rev. J. Halpiu, of Scariff. They are now marked on the 

 Ordnance Survey maps. 



3 There is actually a holy well, Tobergrauia, in Drumnianeen, near Crusbeen. 



* "Dolmens of Ireland," vol. i., p. 96 ; Proc. E.I. A., scr. iii., vol. v., p. 85. 

 Illustration and three plans. See also plans, p. 109, figs. 10, 11, 12, mipni. 



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