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Station, and is situated in a field quite close to the Bray Eoad, about 

 300 yards to the west of Loughlinstown Eiver. The following details 

 are from O'Neill (loc. cit. p. 41) : — "It is within half a mile of the 

 sea-shore. The field on which it lies is almost level ; there is no 

 trench or other artificial arrangement in connexion with it. There 

 are only four supporting stones, two on each side ; one of these has 

 been broken in the middle, and the opposite one has fallen in; but the 

 roof rock rests on the side of the fallen one and the top of the fragment 

 on the opposite side, so as to be retained in its present inclined posi- 

 tion." " The chamber lies east and west, and is 6 or 7 feet long by 

 2 feet 6 inches wide, and was probably 5 feet high. The floor is of 

 clay, and at the level of the surrounding surface. The monument is 

 of granite." Wakeman {loc. cit. p. 68) describes it as "a very fine 

 specimen of what may be styled, as regards size, a cromleac of the 

 second class. It is supported upou four stones, and presents no appear- 

 ance of having been enveloped in a mound of any description. The 

 chamber would seem to extend east and west. There is neither name 

 nor legend in connexion with the monument. The situation is close 

 to the sea." 



I was unable to recognize the break in the stone mentioned by 

 O'Xeill, who evidently wrote under the impression that the cap-stone 

 was originally placed horizontally, and was then "five feet high," 

 that is, lay horizontally on the supporting stones at 5 feet above the 

 surface of the ground. This interpretation does not seem to be borne 

 out by the examination of the monument. There are four stones 

 (PI. XIII., fig. 2). On three of these the cap rests; that is, on the north- 

 west stone, the south-east, and the south-west one. The north-east 

 stone is not in contact with the cap, and leans against the adjacent south- 

 east stone ; its eastern face making with the adjacent face of the south- 

 east pillar stone an angle of 60°, as indicated in the plan. The cap- 

 stone lies fairly evenly in the north and south direction, on its supports, 

 dipping, liowever, slightly to the north, owing probably to the want of 

 support of the notth-east stone. It slopes, or inclines to the west, at 

 an angle of 23° with the horizon (taken on the under face), and I could 

 see no indication to justify the supposition that it ever occupied the 

 horizontal position suggested by O'l^eill. It is to be noted that a hole 

 of about three-fourths of an inch in diameter, and 5 or 6 inches in 

 depth, has been drilled in the upper surface of the stone on the north 

 side. Similar holes are found in the Ancient Inscribed Stone, Killiney, 

 described by Wakeman (loc. cit. p. 49;. The orientation of the chamber 

 is practically east and west, that uf the east side of the south-east stone 



