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ends and the roof slabs have fallen. It was probably covered with 

 earth. ^ In Tyredagh demesne a large cromlech of the usual type stands 

 in the farmyard, a small earth ring in the garden, and a pillar stone 

 9 feet by 5 feet near the gate ; they are preserved by the Gore family. 



Cahekloghan (sheet 34). — A group of three small "demi-dolmens" 

 near Moymore Bridge. Each consists of a slab, its east end supported 

 by another stone. The top slabs measure respectively 6 feet by 6 feet 

 8 inches by 12 inches, 7 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 2 inches by 18 inches, 

 and 2 feet 3 inches by 4 feet by 12 inches.^ The side of another cist 

 is preserved in a modem wall. A fifth, consisting of a ruined cairn 

 and cist, stands in a grove of bushes west of the large " demi 

 dolmen " ; while the top slab of a large dolmen remains in the southern 

 fields of the townland. It has been set up on edge by the faiTuer who 

 removed tlie other stones. 



Basin Stones. — A few examples of these interesting objects occur 

 near prehistoric sepulchres in the county of Clare. (1) Near Cappagh- 

 kennedy cromlecli lies a small limestone slab, 18 inches by 12 inches, 

 in which appears five little cups, about 2 inches in diameter. Three are 

 complete, and ground smooth ; two have been commenced, and picked 

 with some pointed instrument. (2) ISTear the mound of Magh Adhair, 

 one already described in our Proceedings.^ (Plate IX., fig. 3.) (3) A 

 rr"nd basin, 12 inches in diameter, in a block of yellow sandstone 

 lying in a grove in Kiltanon demesne, near the only remaining block 

 of a large cromlech, at which unbaptized children were buried till 

 about forty years ago. (Plate IX., fig. 2.) (4) A round basin (10 

 inclies diameter) in the east end block of the cromlech in Newgrove 

 demesne. (Plate IX., fig. 1.) 



List of " Cromlechs" in the Cotjntt of Clare. 



{Arranged under haronies, and numbered as on Plate VIII.) 



BuEEEN. — Ballycahill, 5. Ballyganner North, 23, 24, 25. Bally- 

 ganner South, 26, 27. Ballymihil, 9. Ballyvaughan, 1. Berneens, 



^ Since the date of tMs Paper, Mr. Borlase has published my plan of the 

 Tyredagh dolmen ("Dolmens of Ireland," vol. i., pp. 87, 88). He has, I think, 

 made a slight error in concluding that the sides of the west "giant's grave," at 

 Clooney, "meet in a point " to the north (p. 82). The north, Uke the south end, 

 was nearly straight and is in perfect preservation. 



- In the Dindsenchas ("Revue Celtique," 1894, p. 286), mention is made of a 

 small grave of two stones, 3' x 3^'. 



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