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2 inclies wide ; but it lias split iato t"\Yo layei-s, each. 1 inches Xm 

 7 inclies thick. It is thickly ivied, and may have been adopted or 

 erected by the monks of the neighbouring very ancient monastery, 

 to mark the bounds of their lands. 



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(36). Cappaghabatx Moi^n-iaix or Cappa&hbane,^ Moynoe Parish 

 (0. S. Sheet 21, Xo. o). — This dolmen lies near the bounds of Clare 

 and G-alway, in a secluded nook in the hills above Lough Derg. It is 

 shown in the maps of 1839 as a lai-ge iiTegular block, resting on at 

 least three stones, and with other outlying blocks. It lies on a grassv 

 patch, on the slope of a heathy hill, covered with bog. The site 

 commands an extensive and beautiful view over Lough Derg, with its 

 islets and wooded shores and promontories. The hills of Ogonnelloe, 

 the woods of Eaheen and Caher, and the point of Aughinish, close in 

 the view ; and through the gaps we see a further reach of the lake 

 towards Killaloe, and the great rounded mountain of Thountinna 

 (where Fintan slept secui-ely under the waters of the Deluge, as told 

 in our older legends) and the heights of Slieve Bemagh over the valle}' 

 of Killokennedy. Behind us, the Bow river and the streams of Sheeaun, 

 Glencullin, and Bai'naminnaun, fall down the long valleys fi-om the 

 heathery uplands towards Lough Atorick, the highest point in 

 Cappaghbane being 1126 feet above the sea. 



The structui-e is called " Dennot and Grania's bed" on the 1840 

 map. I found no one in that lonely valley to tell me any legend oi- 

 name connected with it on either day when I visited and planned tht- 

 monument. 



It is a small cist of thi'ee great sandstone blocks, tapering eastward, 

 and measui'ing internally 4 feet 2 inches to 3 feet 3 inches wide, and 

 6 feet 9 inches long. The blocks are about 2 feet thick, and 2 feet 

 6 inches high ; it has been opened, and the west stones lie outside it. 

 The walls are double, and have externally three blocks to the north. 

 The most western is a pillai', 5 feet by 25 inches by 12 inches to 

 14 inches of conglomerate, with pink and scarlet pebbles embedded 

 in it. There is one block, 4 feet 2 inches long, and 8 inches thick to 

 the west, and three blocks not parallel to the inner side, and 

 respectively 4 feet 7 inches, 2 feet, and 3 feet 1 inches long, 3 feet 

 high, and, except the middle flag, 1 foot thick. The interspace is filled 

 with turf, and makes sides 31 inches to 36 inches thick. -The cover 



^Locally " Cappabane," pronounced Cappa-bahn- 



