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presume, from a reliance on 'Aine's proverbial kindness. Much, too, was 

 taken for the long wall beside it. It measures 4S to 55 feet across, and is 

 1 1 feet high to the west, 6 feet to the south, and S to 9 feet elsewhere. No 

 large stones remain. It is beside an apparently artificial hollow, dug along 

 one of the great rock-ribs so characteristic of the hill. A faintly marked 

 enclosure and an even fainter circular hollow adjoin the cairn. 



The Eciilasa Pillaus. — No trace remains ; they may have been used for 

 material for the castles and other buildings in the village below the hill. 1 



The Conjoined Kinhs. — This is called Dunainey and the " Mullach an 

 fcriuir " ; tbree fosses, with rounded mounds of the Bathnarrow type, one in 

 each ring. A modern fence crosses them, like that through the Coolough- 

 tragh rings at Cush. Tiny were probably disc barrows, and sepulchral; 

 perhaps, like several of those excavated, they were women's graves. 1 But 

 for its poor preservation, the whole would be comparable with the Cush 

 monument. N T o trace remains of an enclosing mound round the whole; if it 

 existed, it was possibly u feet wide, as the fosse rings are 12 feet apart. 

 They lie north and .south; the northern a little to the east of the central 

 axis of the others. The whole measures (if we include the northern cairn 

 and ring 27 feet away) about 250 feet north and south. The fosses and 

 interspaces are 12 feet wide. The rings are 33 feet, 36 feet, and 36 feet, 

 taking them from north to south, and about 63 feet to 54 feet over all, east 

 and west 



The cairn to the north of them lies in a ring 6 feet thick, and 63 feet over 

 all : it is a heap of small stones 18 feet through and 4 feet high, the centre 

 opened. 3 The iin_'< \wn- deliberately dug on a slope, the edge of the 

 southern touching the edge of the plateau on which 'Aine's cairn stands, 

 99 feef away. 



1 1 Donovan did not notice the northern rings; he took no interest, in the 

 earthworks, and contemptuously notes the "defaced cairn," the fort, and 

 "two small mounds evidently Bepulchral," apparently the southern rings. 

 He adds thai "'Aine was Btill (1840) supposed to haunt the hill in the Bhapc 

 of a banshee." 4 



1 For "a district marked liy ft stone of worship " Bee Ancient Laws, vol. iv, p. 143 ; the 

 Urges) onus "f Lough < Inr baa been removed sin 



\i ■!' British Barrows" (Thumhain in Archaeologia, vol. xliii, pp. 285, 348) ; 

 "Ancient lli-.t. of South Wiltshire " (Hoare, 1812); p. 21; "Tumuli Wiltunenses " 

 (same, 1821), pp. 19, 169. 



!<■ kting cites fr..rn Rook of Lecan, f 25«, in "Three Hitter Shafts of Death," the 

 passage, "a small rath was raised round tlie corpse, with a leacht, or cairn." Tins 

 accurately describes this monument. 

 * O.s Letters, voL i, p. 829. 



