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Olsr CEETAIN MEGALITHIC EEMATNS IMMEDIATELY 

 SUEEOUNDING LOUGH GUE, COUNTY LIMEEICK. 



By BEETEAM C. A. WINDLE, Sc.D., LL.D., F.E.S., F.S.A., M.E.I.A., 

 President and Professor of Archaeology, Universitj' College, Cork, 



Plates XXIII-XXXI. 



Reail June 24. Published September 9, ]912, 



I. Introduction. 



Lough Gue is a very picturesquely situated piece of water in the County of 

 Limerick, about three miles north of Bruff. Both in history and legend it 

 is a place of great distinction ; but I do not propose to concern myself in this 

 paper with either of these aspects. Nor do I propose on this occasion to give 

 a list of the extraordinarily varied objects, stone, bronze, and otherwise, which 

 have been found in or near it, though such a list would be very interesting 

 and instructive. I propose to confine myself to giving an account of certain 

 niegalithic structures immediately surrounding the lake. These objects have 

 been mentioned by numerous writers ; and some description has been given of 

 them by each of the following authors : — Professor Harkness, F.R.s., formerly 

 of this College, in the Quarterly Journal of Science for 1869, p. 388 ; the 

 Eev. J. A. Lynch in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological 

 Society for 1895, pp. 241 and 289 ; Mr. A. L. Lewis in the Journal of the 

 Anthropological Institute, vol. xii, p. 517. 



In none of these accounts, however, is there any attempt at a complete 

 survey of the interesting objects concerned, nor are all tlie objects forming 

 the various groups with which I deal mentioned in any of the papers. 



On my first visit to this district I had not time to do more than gain a 

 general idea of its antiquities ; but I was so much impressed by them that I 

 made up my mind to make a prolonged visit in order to obtain a complete 

 and accurate survey of them. In this work, which occupied some time, I was 

 greatly assisted by my wife, to whom some of the illustrations in this paper 

 are due. Professor Alexander was good enough to accompany me, and to 

 secure the assistance of one of his senior students, Mr. J. F. X. Hartigan. 

 To these gentlemen, who were able to work with a tlieodolite and other instru- 

 ments which I am not capable of employing, I owe the greater part of the 

 Survey, and especially the accurate plans of some of the objects (figs. 1, 2, 3, 

 R.;.A. i-KOc, vor.. xxx., secit. c. [39] 



