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however, and an incorrect English name, " the priest's gram" snbstitntecl : to 

 explain which a story about Cromwell shooting a priest and burying him 

 here has evolved itself. A small pile of stones, lying apparently directly on 

 the rock, in a recess just inside the lower entrance to the passage and on the 

 eastern side, is pointed out as the " grave." 



The easternmost spur consists of two parts, the towering crest of Dun na 

 bhFioradh and the flat table-land on which stands the settlement presently 

 to be described, called Corr Logach, " the hollowy hill," or Cldr Cor rack, " the 

 marshy (or level) table-land." 



In the valleys there is nothing of archaeological interest to be seen. On 

 the ridges are the following : — 

 I. Fourteen burial earns. 

 II. Two ruined dolmens, or dolmen-like structures. 



III. A group of cii'cular enclosures, apparently the remains of an ancient 

 ■village. 



It may here be stated that of the earns only three (C, G, and H) are 

 recorded as such on the Ordnance Map, and none of the other structures; and 

 that of the twenty-three place-names' in the square mile of country mapped 

 in Plate X, only nine (the seven townland names and two others, all in 

 phonetic spelling) are recorded. Nothing could more clearly indicate the 

 absolute necessity, for scientific or historical purposes, of a thorough re-survey, 

 under expert superintendence, of the archaeology and the fast-corrupting 

 place-names of the coiintry. 



We now proceed to a description of the structures. 



l.— The Cams. 



The typical earns are conical mounds of stone, erected on a base more or 

 less circular. They are composed entirely of the limestone native to the 

 spot, save for occasional fragments of calcite, or of the erratic blocks of sand- 

 stone that are strewn about in the neighbourhood. The only earth in the 

 earns is a little peat which has evidently been blown over them as dust, and 

 then been washed by rain into the interstices between the stones. Except in 

 the case of two or three of the earns, very little vegetation has found root 

 upon them. 



The internal structure, as will be seen from the detailed description that 

 follows, is not uniform. In the concluding summary the various types are 

 enumerated. As at Brugh na Boinne,^ the chambers are never centred exactly 



' Counting altemative names for one place as one only. 



- It is devoutly to be -srisheii that the pointless modern label of this structure ("New Grange ") 

 should be abandoned in favour of its ancient Irish name. 



