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(7). Squared table-like block of conglomerate. The top is remarkably 

 flat, and the two south quoins have the appearance of being 

 worked, but this is probably an accidental resemblance. Height, 

 3 feet 8 inches. 

 (8). Irregular, tabular, limestone. Height, 4 feet 3 inches. 

 (9). Irregularly pyramidal, limestone. Height, 3 feet 3 inches. 

 (10). Quadrilateral, irregular, and tabular. Conglomerate. Height, 

 3 feet 1 inch. 



Between this stone and the next is the main gap in the circle, 

 situated to the south-west. 

 (11). Truncated pyramidal, limestone. Height, 4 feet 8 inches. 

 (12). The smallest stone irregular, limestone. Height, 1 foot 7 inches. 

 (13). Irregular, tabular. Conglomerate. Height, 2 feet 10 inches. 

 (14). Bounded block, with its long axis tangential to the circle. Con- 

 glomerate. Height, 1 foot 10 inches. 

 (15). Bounded block of conglomerate, with its long axis tangential to the 

 circle. Height, 2 feet 5 inches. 



I. "D " (see fig. 4). 



On the western side of circle " C," and in the same field, is an irregular 

 group of stones named " Stone Circle " by the Ordnance Map. Without the 

 history of the place it would be impossible to say what this may have been ; 

 but from the following quotations it would, at first sight, seem that it is all 

 that remains of a circle. Professor Harkness says (p. 389) : "A short distance 

 northwards from this fine circle [i.e. circle ' B '] the remains of another are 

 seen. This second one is entirely composed of blocks of stone. An old 

 road' runs through the western side of this second circle ; the portions which 

 remain are, however, sufficient to afford a knowledge of its original size. Its 

 diameter is larger than the fine stone and earth circle at Grange Cottage," 

 being 170 feet." Mr. Lynch says (p. 300) : " About 30 yards north of the 

 chief circle there is another circle with a diameter of 170 feet. It has no 

 rath, and only six pillar stones are left. In Fitzgerald's time there were 

 seventy-two stones in this circle, but about sixty-five years ago it was destroyed 

 by Mr. Edward Croker, of Grange." Finally, Mr. Lewis (p. 524), who mentions 

 the same facts as have just been alluded to, seems to have missed the remains 

 which still exist, for he says : " It is said to have possessed seventy-two stones 

 in 1826, but only sixty in 1828, and of these all but six were destroyed in 



1 No trace of this road now exists. ^ Now known as Holy Cross Cottage. 



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