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high, the roof slabs have split and fallen, but when perfect the pillars 

 overtopped them by at least a foot. The central chamber is 5 feet 

 6 ia. long by 6 feet, and has similar pillars to its northern door ; they 

 are 6 feet high, and rose 2 feet above the roof, forming a trilithon, of 

 which the lintel has fallen. There was an outer facing of slabs, the 

 spaces between these and the sides having been packed with small 

 stones and clay. (Plate X., fig. 1), 



Eastward lies the fort Caheraneden with a "fosleac" or slab 

 hut, whence a straight road, made by removing the top layers of 

 the crags, runs south to the second, a fallen cromlech, the north 

 and top slabs are each about 9 feet 8 by 6 feet 8. A third 

 stands inside a nameless caher with its west end embedded in 

 the rampart ; it tapers from 7 feet at the west to 4 feet east, and 

 consists of three side slabs, the southern 1 3 feet 8 inches long ; the 

 top has been broken into five fragments, probably by fire. A fourth 

 (very perfect) stands in the wreckage of a cairn. It is a small cist of 

 four stones, the east end being open. The south side lies W. N. W. 

 and E. S. E. ; the IS", and S. sides measure respectively 11 feet 5 inches 

 and 12 feet 7 inches, while the top slab is 13 feet long and 7 feet 8 

 inches broad, it has two channels in its upper surface, probably 

 waterworn. A fifth, of exceptional size, crowns the hill (above 

 Ballyganner castle in its surrounding caher) and forms a very conspi- 

 cuous landmark, its top slab has numerous little basins a few inches 

 across, possibly like the " marmites du diable " in the dolmens of 

 Brittany, once used for offerings of butter, &c., to the spirits residing 

 in the cist, and the " elf mills " described by Dr. lEontelius as occur- 

 ling in the top slabs of Swedish cists. The south side measures 

 18 feet 6 inches long by 7 feet 8 inches ; its north is 17 feet 4 inches 

 long ; it tapers eastward from 9 feet 7 inches to 6 feet 2 inches. The 

 top slab when perfect must have measured 11 feet by 20 feet. 



Addeoon^ (sheet 18 in Moyree Commons). — A singular monument 

 of five stones, apparently a chamber, 6 feet 6 inches by 5 feet, with 

 parallel sides, lying east and west. (Plate IX., fig. 4). "Within it 

 two large blocks are set (the western askew), dividing it into two 

 cells, the north-west triangular, the eastern of a lozenge shape, about 

 6 feet by 3 feet. The northern "insertion" is 9 feet 8 inches high, 



'1 Addroon, Corbehagh, Tyredagh, and Caherloglian cromleclis are not marked on 

 the six-incli Ordnance Survey. Mr. Borlase's "Dolmens of Ireland" contains a 

 vie^T of Knockeen dolmen, county of Waterford (p. 61). Addroon, when perfect^ 

 must h.ave closely resembled this monument. 



