2 78 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



As for the Mayo lands, 1 " Miekletony " O'Donnell, of Termonearra, told 

 Caesar Otway that some twenty people had seen Monaster Ladra, and one had 

 pursued it for several days in his hoat to try to disenchant it. This " druid 

 land" was often seen from Iniskea and Inisglora. Owen Gallagher, a servant 

 of Otway's friend, Lieutenant A. Henri, when lost at sea, beheld looming 

 through the fog an unknown island, landed and found it inhabited by " seal 

 men." Henri, before 1840, had heard of this land as extending from Teelin, 

 in Donegal, to the Stags of Broad Haven. A woman named Lavelle had seen 

 a pleasant land about a mile off Dnnminulla at Portacloy ; it had hills, cattle, 

 and drying clothes under the sea. A Ballyeastle man had seen it twice at 

 intervals of seven years. Had he seen it a third time, he could have dis- 

 enchanted it ; but he died the day before the completion of the twenty-first 

 year. 5 It is said by the ancient Irish that when Tir Taimgire is disenchanted 

 the sea will break over the present lands, 2 and that the sea is to overflow Hy 

 Fiachrach, and, at last, cover the floating cairn at Tra EothailL 3 



Note. — Monuments in Nokth Mcbrisk (0. S. 95, 96). 



From Clew Bay southward, though little is shown on the map, several interesting 

 monuments remain. I have to thank Mr. Praeger for the following notes : — 



|1) Among the sandhills south of Ernlagh Point and close to Lough Cahasy is 

 a cross-inscribed pillar 5 feet by 2 feet by 1 foot. The cross is " Maltese " and 

 encircled ; there is said to have been an inscription, but none remains. (2) The 

 sandhills here and also at Dooaghtry, six miles southward, abound in midden 

 remains. (3) Kear Cross Lough on the upper side of the road leading south is a 

 circle of irregular stones rarely A feet high. (1) At Tullavranna in a sandy plain is 

 an earthen mound 20 feet high and 30 feet across, preserved by gravestones some 

 9 feet long and having a primitive church Templedoonmore. A stream cuts into 

 the edge exposing coffins, bones, and skulls (see Irish Naturalist, xx, 193). 

 (5-7; Three ring-forts at Aillemore, Cloonlaur, and Stookamore. South from 

 Louisburgh, in Tobernahaltora, is ( 8) an unmarked dolmen, the chamber, 8 by 5 feet, 

 with a cover, 7 by 6 feet. Mr. G. H. Kinahan describes a curious slab-structure at 

 Aillemore also south from Louisburgh. It is 13 by 5 feet. Borlase notes it, and 

 suggests that there may be an ''altar" at the former site. This record of a 

 supposed poor district suggests how much has still to be done by Irish antiquaries 

 in this single county. 



•• Zrris and Tyrawley," pp. 79, 98, 247, 401, an i Otway's " Tour in Connaught," pp. 3S7, 439. 

 dlique," xxri (1906), p. 49. 

 i >t i.^in^ter, f. 239 u, " De Matribus Sanctjiurn.*' 



