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and 31 feet froru its southern end. The diameter of the mound at the base is 

 60 feet. Petrie placed Duma na mBan-amus on his map in (lie same position 

 liy conjecture : Inn, strange to say, he was unable to find any trace of the 

 monument on the site.' It is. however, fairly conspicuous. 



Unless ili'- ' women" were those slaughtered by Dunlaing, king of 

 Laighen.ii) or about 222 a.i>.. we have no information as to the history of tins 

 mound. VI) refers obscurely to the " betrayal" of the women alter whom 

 the mound is named, but gives no particulars. 



27, Comfot I 'adclwn ocus a Ar.nl 



The grave (lit. "equal length ") of Caelchu ami his " ladder" were " level 

 with the northern end of Tech Midchuarta" il'l> 28). The grave was 

 apparently a cam ; it is said in Vl'iii 143 to be fo ehochma clock, an obscure 

 expression Bee Gwynn's note ■' 'oc.).' These monuments have disappeared ; 

 Petrie's identification of the "Fort of Caelchu "is wrong, the structure 

 which he thus names being certainly Raith Grainde. Indeed, it is most 

 probable that there m a fort bo named at Temair at all. Arad moans 



"a ladder." 11 reads n mit[/i] instead of drad, on which the other mkx. are 



eed: and, as usual, tin is to be preferred. The " ladder of 



Caelchu " might have 1 a some structure of stones — an allee couverte, for 



111. and Wl-Ongly Sllpposoil t,, hrlolig to 



it. Mi. V7estropp calls my attention to the •■steps" .-.i Diuitrileague. 

 Limerick — an all£e couverte in which the successive capstones rise stair- 

 wise There is a 1 irge blo -k of couglomei ite in i he fen< n i he eastern side 



■ it the road not far from the indicated spot : this may possibly be a relic of 

 the monument 



/ An 



This was at and level with the north-east end tic) of Tech Midchuarta 

 The word t m/ a in a ini;_'ht mean either a triple ring-fort, or a group of 

 three burial mounds : the latter seems the more likely, but VI > iii 47 de cribes 

 the structure Hlh.' Petrie found no trace of it; bul Mr. Westropp 



and I noticed what may be the remains of it in a cornet of a field close 

 to the northern end of Tech Midchuarta, and on the opposite side of the 



ghbouring road. We observed a quadrant of a circle, the sides mea uring 

 ."•I yards along the road fence and <>:'. yards along the adjoining field fence, 



'. p. 216. 



' i i... ms some kin.l of vessel; possibly i comparison is intended between a 



heap i und a cooking-val or some such utensil, turned upside-down. 



* See the drawing in Borlase, Dolmen* of Ireland, i, 60. 

 1 i tampan also the notice of Hum Traditi, b.i Mtig-eime, in Coi mac - I 



