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with a slight fosse and rounded corners to the east, and a hollow track along 

 its south side. From the latter side two parallel tracks, also 6 to 8 feet 

 wide, run towards the south-east to the hollows or dry pools 84 feet away. 

 Between these ponds is a mound 4 feet high, of doubtful age. From the 

 double track another one leads at right angles towards the west. Crossing 

 the stream and valley, and going up KnoekaunatarrifT, through a marsh 

 thick with yellow iris, or " flagger," we get a noble view of Sliabh riach and 

 tbe Galtees ; the rise has a slight terrace, probably natural. 



Twin Mounds. — At the end of a long " screen " (plantation), and on the 

 summit, we End conjoined twin tumuli; they are cut by the mearing of the 

 townland, and that of Mitchellstowo Down, 1 and recall the " Two Breasts" at 

 the Brugh. Each has been opened ; the cross fence has been made between 

 them, and the boundary fence cuts their west thinks. They are on a steep 

 slope, so the southern is L3 feet high, in three slightly marked stages, to 

 the east, and 5 feet to the west, ami tin' northern 1" t<> lii feet, and 5 feet 

 high. The first is 13 feel across the top, and 45 feet below; and 15 feet 

 from it. beyond the fence, is the northern mound. It is 15 feet on top, and 

 ovei 30 feet below. 



RlNG-MoUND. — In the field, lower, but still on the summit, is a ring- 

 platform, 00 to 61 feet across, ami " feet !ii_'h ; a fosse 12 feet wide and barely 

 2 feel deep remains to the south, west, and north ; there is a trace of the 

 outer ring t" the south-east. 



OONJOINKD Rings. — Qoing northwards down a gentle slope we reach a 

 llagger patch and an old track about H"> yards from the upper ring, and at 

 ::.". yards farther the most remarkable of the remains. This consists of two 

 platforms conjoined' within one fosse 12 feet wide. Each is D-shaped in 

 plan, and 4 to 5 feet high, and the western is 60 feet across east and west, 

 and 54 feet north and south. The dividing fosse is straight, 9 feet wide 

 below, and 24 feet from platform to platform. The eastern section is 81 feet 

 across, north and south, 78 feet east and west. The main fosse is obliterated 

 to the north-east of it. The western ring has signs of large stone facing ; 

 one block is over 3 feet long and high, and 2 feet 6 inches thick. From its 

 position any ceremony on the platforms must have been visible to many 



1 Ballenvistallane-Duwn, in 1587. Fiant 5179. 



3 1 have noted such remains in the following counties : there are possibly many 

 others : —Clare 3, Kerry 1, Limerick \'.i, Tipperary 14, Cork L'. Waterford 1, Louth 1, 

 Meath 5, Westmeath 1, Carlow 1, Roscommon 4, Mayo 1. The preponderance in 

 Limerick and Tippermry is very marked. 



