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and axe by her side." It may be an bittli&r of the' holy places of the ancient 

 'Oenach Cairbie. 



Eakthwokks South from the CAJiModE. 



There are few earthworks of outstiinding interest: (1) a curious group of 

 courts, called the " Lisheen," low mounds, suggestive rather of the remains 

 of a seventeenth-century court ; (2) a small tumulus (cut across) at Clogher, 

 with a low platform fort near it; and (3) an unusually large example of 

 conjoined rings south of llathmore. 



Tlie last lies in Boherygeela (0.8. Map 31) in low-lying, marshy fields, 

 south of Meanus and tlie Cammoge. Owing to the small amount of material 

 for the study of these problematic eartliworks, I describe it fully. 



It lies on the road from Piathmore to Caherguillamore, and, despite its 

 apparently low site, has pleasant, distant views of Knockfirina, Tory Hill, 

 and the Galtees. It^ plan consists of an irregular, rather shield-sliaped 

 platform to the east, surrounded by a fosse. The western part is cut into 

 a slight " rise " on the northern face, the rest terraced, like its neighbour, 

 4 to 5 feet over the low field, and a few feet lower than the rise. The 

 western mound measures 190 feet across north and south, and 230 feet cast 

 and west. It liad a jiarapet, now quite levelled, on which grow several large 

 hawthorns. It is 110 feet long at its junction with the oilier wing. I saw 

 no stone facing. The eastern wing is still more irregular, about 180 feet east 

 and west, and 165 feet to 200 feet north and south, witli a few bushes on its 

 eastorn parapet, and a wet fosse. Outside the north ditch waw a bold outer 

 mound, 9 to 12 feet thick and 5 to 7 feet over the fosse. The north cusp is 

 7 feet high, and well preserA'ed, running into the usual angle between the 

 platfoiTHs, and crowded with liawlhorns. 



It seems most improljable that this was anything but a residential " fort." 

 It in no way resembles the disc-barrows of Cooloiiglitragh and Banteen, the 

 rounded little tumuli of Knockainey, or the great cairns of Manister. No 

 other earthworks arc near it, ami its nite, though protective, is very different 

 from tliose at 'Oenagh Culi and 'Ocnacli Cairbre, where its nearest notable 

 congeners stand. 



LOGADOON (O.S. 48). — The recent cutting down of the once impenetrable 

 thickets round and on one side of this fine, low mote enables me to give its 

 dimensions. The road from Kilmallock sweeps round its busliy outer ring, 

 opposite to Kilbreedy church. The ring is from 5 to 9 feet high, and 15 feet 

 below, to 6 feet on top. The fosse is usually 18 feet wide and 4 feet deep, 



• Plan, 5i«pra, p. 374. 



