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its position immediately underneath a clirt' would render it useless as a rath. 

 The southern and larger of the two gallauns is a horizon-mark from this 

 circle, from the centre of which to the gallaun the compass-bearing is 19;j. 

 The compass-hearing to the centre of the outcrop is 185°. 



III. "M." 



Stone Cikcle. 



On the extreme slope of the hill and not far from the place marked as the 

 site of Dun Gair on the Ordnance map are the remains of a small circle 

 unmarked by the Ordnance Survey. Almost all the stones are covered by 

 grass, and of the few which appear none is higher than 1 foot. This also was 

 a double circle 49 feet in outside diameter and with a 2-foot clearance to the 

 pathway. 1 have seen small single circles closely resembling this on the tops 

 of hills in England. Such circles would not easily be recognized by those 

 seeing them for the first time. 



IV. "N." 



Gallaun. 



At Lough Gur Cross there is a tabular limestone gallaun, the long axis of 

 which bears 200°. It is 6 feet in height, 6 feet .9 inches in width at the base, 

 and 5 feet 3 inches at the upper part. It is 1 foot 9 inches thick at the base 

 and 1 foot thick at the top. As it lies in a garden at the back of a house, it is 

 not possible to correlate it with any horizon-bearings. 



IV. "0"and"P." 



Stone Cikcles. (See Map.) 



These are two stone circles further north and on the opposite side of the 

 road to the rath called Carrigalla Port. The smaller of the two, P, is situated 

 somewhat to the south of the larger, 0. The bearing from the centre of the 

 larger one through the centre of the smaller is 167°. 



"0." (See figs. 16, 17, 19.) 



The greater or northern circle is locally called the Lisheen. As the figures 

 16 and 17 show, it has been disfigured by the fact that an earthen wall has 

 been run right through from east to west and slightly to the north of the 

 middle line, and that the eastern side has also been much broken up by field 



