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Criim's Staff. The significance of this name has been much insisted on, but I 

 refrain from further dealing with it, since such a task should be left to 

 experienced Irish scholars and folk-lorists. The small dolmen " F " is called 

 Leaba ua Muice, i.e. the pig's bed, a term employed in the case of at least one 

 other dolmen known to me in Co. Cork. Mr. Lynch's remarks on this seem 

 to be due to a misapprehension of the meaning of the word "Mucoi" (for 

 which see Henebry, Journ. Ivernian Soc, vol. iii, p. 73). The cistvaen " H " 

 is called Giants' Graves, a common enough name for such objects. It is also 

 known as Leaba Diarmuid agus Grania, again a common name. 



Not being an astronomer, I cannot myself make any comments on the 

 bearings of the various structures described, but wherever it seemed possible 

 to me that such bearings might possibly be significant, they were taken with 

 a prismatic compass. I submitted them to my cousin. Captain Boyle 

 Somerville, k.n., who is an expert in this matter.' The notes respecting the 

 bearings which he has been kind enough to send me are appended to the 

 descriptions of the objects to which they relate. 



II. Description. 

 In order to simplify the division of the objects under description I divide 

 them into the following Groups which are clearly shown and lettered as below 

 in the accompanying map : — 



I. Objects near Holy Cross Cottage. These include objects A-E. (See 



fig. 1.) 

 II. Objects between Holy Cross cross-roads and the Black Castle, F-I. 



III. Objects north of Lough Gur, N-S. 



IV. Objects on Knockadoon, J-M. 



V. Object on side of Knockfennell, T. 



I. " A " (figs. 1 and 6). 

 " The Pillai!." 

 This object is a large gallauu inclining at a considerable angle to the ground 

 and of the following measurements : — 



Maximum height above ground, . . . .10 feet '1 inches. 



„ thickness, . . . . . 3 feet 5 inches. 



length, . . . . . 6 feet 9 inches. 



„ girth, 18 feet 8 inches. 



It is placed more or less to the north uf the other oljjects in this Group ; 

 its exact bearing from the centre of the circle C over the centre of No. 3 stone 

 being 5.5° 48". 



' it was a source of great regret to him us well as to myself that he couM not come with us, as 

 we liad always hoped to make a joint survey of the district. 



