Westhopp — Dolmens at Balhjcroum, County Clare. 87 



Letters ; ^ this has unfortimately been published by Mr. Borlase - 

 "without a personal visit, and owing to its wide dissemination has been 

 quoted, and in one instance has already been used as the basis of a 

 fiu'ther theory.^ It therefore seems necessary, despite the proverbial 

 difficulty of stopping an error once it gets into print, to supply careful 

 plans and information, and point out the deficiencies of O'Donovan's 

 description and the consequent untenable nature of his theory. 



He writes — " Tobar Ghraine, i.e. Grania's well, which is, perhaps, 

 the most curious in Ireland as resembling almost in every particular 

 instance the well called the ' the King of the Waters ' * in the Book of 



TOBERGRANIA. FROM THE EaST. 

 (Altoir Ultach on the mound.) 



Armagh. It is situated in the centre of a bog about three mileis from 

 the village of Feakle. It is a square well measuring 5 feet every 

 way, and constructed of stones placed on their edges, and covered at 

 the top with a large flag laid horizontally, and measuring 8 feet from 

 the north to the south, and 7 feet 6 inches from east to west, and 



iMSS. E. LA., 14 B 24, p. 156. 2 "Dolmens of Ireland," p. 95. 



3iJ. S, A. I. Journal, 1899, pp. 63, 123. 



*" Tripartite Life of St. Patrick" (Ed. Whitley Stokes), pp. 122 and 123. 

 The "Eex Aquarum" was four-cornered, and had a square slab on top with a slit. 



