WiNDLE — Megalithic Remains surrotmdmg Lough Gur. 297 



No. 7 is a tabular stone, 1 foot 3 inches in thickness, which looks as if it 

 had fallen off the tops of Nos. 6 and 8. If it be so, and all the appearances 

 point to it, there was probably a second cist, unlined by stones, underneath 

 this slab.. 



No. 8 is 2 feet 6 inches in height, tabular, lies east and west, and pairs 

 with No. 5. 



No. 9 is a stone 1 foot 3 inches in thickness, lying partly on No. 3. 



No. 10 is tabular, I foot 3 inches in thickness, and looks as if it were the 

 boundary of an ambulatory on the north side of the cist. The width of 

 this ambulatory at its narrowest point on both sides is about 18 inches. 



No. 1 1 is a large stone situated 18 inches from the end of the cist. 



No. 12 is an isolated tabular stone lying east and west. 



II. "I." 



Gallauns (see fig. 15). 



On the brow of the hill above the Giants' Graves are two large blocks of 

 stone, unmarked and unnamed on the Ordnance map. Both of these are of 

 conglomerate, whereas all the outcrops on the hill are of limestone. I have no 

 doubt whatever that one of these, which is bedded in the ground, is a gallaun, 

 and feel pretty confident that the other also comes under this description. 

 The larger and more southern of these two, which is embedded in the earth, 

 and clearly a gallaun, is 4 feet 6 inches in height and 7 feet in length, and 

 inclines at an angle of 60° to the lower slope of the hill. The northern block, 

 which is rounded, measures 6 feet 9 inches by 4 feet, and is 3 feet 6 inches high. 

 The compass-bearing from one gallaun to another is 2 1 0°; and the compass- 

 bearing at right angles to the line between the two stones is 320°. As will 

 appear later, the first of these stones is a very prominent horizon-mark from 

 one of the circles on Knockadoon. 



III. "J." 



Stone Circle (see map). 



As already mentioned, Knockadoon and the surrounding land appear 

 originally to have formed an island guarded at its two approaches by the 

 Black Castle and Bourchier's Castle. On the high ground are four stone 

 circles. J is not visible from either of the other circles, and is 100 feet in 

 diameter (outside measurement). It is a double circle, and the clearance of 

 the ambulatory between the two rows of stones is 4 feet. Of the visible 

 stones, none is more than four feet in height, and most of them much less ; 

 and it is pretty obvious that there was a small central circle, even if such had 



