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near the great fair site of Cahermee, near Buttevant. So far I note two 

 varieties, one of several disc barrows or else mounds of the Bathnarrow 

 type), as at Cooloughtra (five rings . Knockainy (four), and Doonakenna, 

 near Barna Hill (three). The ethers are very low platforms. In Co. Clare 

 there are two types — ring-walls, or rings of earth and stone, like at Teernea 

 and at Liscullaun, near Corofin station ;' or a ring and crescent annexe (like 

 at Clogher) as at Creevag rbally, and Ayleacotty, near Quin, one at 



M yfe] t igl church, and a marsh-fort at Lismehane, 1 Co. Clare, and Ballinbeg, 

 near Aghad k. 



S LCHRAL Remains. — Irish literature is rich in side-lights on such 



monuments. First, there is the dmna, a tumitlus, an outlook, or the raised 



of a house. We have an example in the twin tumuli at Clogher, which 



work probably n - the "Ti the Morrigu," in the Great 



When going over the site of Tara with Professor 



Ma we found what exactly tallies in site and character with the 



to its nature.' It was evidently 



three small mounds within an oval ring, partly terraced up; hut the road 



1 the middle mound. Such tumuli were probably (as in this 



with the gods. W ' mounds were made ovei 



warriors, We find elsewhere' 5 how a 



two doors For a woman, and 



lying leuce. When square or 



Buitable for the dartc 



The sc 1 ■arrow - Cooloug _ . idontly the joined tombs, 



litionally, of Eithne and three otbi oftheErnai, 



Eithne was I, and a daughter of Lugaid 



ma> D aother of Conain ' _ Lama, and of Lugaid Laga by 



M _ . near her, was a daughter of Ugai 



nnected with the gods 



1 Dr in» has made me a plan which, with my own plan of Ballinbeg, 



idem; in -i future study. 

 • A _r .. , - told by an old labourer not to exercise !: 



ill luck. 



h na Mon e Paps in Kerry) see "Barnil 



Finn- H 



ree concentric r 

 K, 21.2.17, p. 91. 



f Death, for" small ratha 

 ie claidhe " uaed for burial : D the Cemeteries" ; Book of Li.sni' 



•.. xxvii, j . • - ,;u, L. na hl'idhre, names the fert of Dughis ; see 



also many nor- irnh and l>ind Senchas. In Tochmarch Feirbe fifty persons are 



buried in one duina; in I nam' (mbb. II. I. Acad., 23k 37), two druids are 



buried in Dumha na ndruadh. See also Cath Finntrayha. p 



