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To the east of the Saints' Graveyard is a dense growth of trees, among 

 which are some wild damsons. These are most likely descendants of 

 the trees in the monastic orchard. Not improbably the position of the 

 orchard is indicated by this grove. 



We have now described, as fully as possible, all the structures to be 

 seen on the island. We now turn to the sepulchral and other monuments. 



XII. The Bulldn Stones. 



Of these there are five. 



1. At the side of the doorway of St. Caimin's, measuring 2 feet by 1 foot 

 9 inches. 



2. About midway between the Eound Tower and a point between 

 St. Mary's and St. Brigid's, and about one-third of the way from the Tower. 

 A block of conglomerate 5 feet by 3 feet 6 inches, with a bowl-shaped 

 depression 1 foot 6 inches in diameter, and 11 inches deep. 



3. On the eastern shore of the island, about 25 yards north of the landing- 

 stage, a boulder 5 feet 6 inches by 3 feet 5 inches, 2 feet 9 inches high, 

 with a cup-hollow 1 foot 3 inches across, and 6 inches deep. 



4. A short distance north of this, a boulder 2 feet 5 inches by 1 foot 

 5 inches by 1 foot, with a broken hollow, 1 foot 4 inches across and 9 inches 

 deep. 



5. Near the shore towards the north of the island, a stone 2 feet 7 inches 

 by 1 foot 9 inches by 1 foot 5 inches, with an oval depression measuring 1 foot 

 5 inches by 1 foot, and 5 inches deep. 



In a letter dated 8th October 1915, Mr. Hibbert tells me of the discovery 

 of anotlier bidldn, after my latest visit. It was hidden under a bramble bush, 

 which Mr. Hibbert has had cleared away. It lies about fifty-five yards from 

 the shore, in a line between the Eound Tower and the islet off the north shore 

 of Inis Cealtra, east of the island called lUaunaskirtami on the Ordnance map. 

 Compass-bearing to the tower, 198 degrees. 



Mr. Hibbert says : " The stone is sandstone, with occasional small, rounded, 

 quartz pebbles in it; undoubtedly it has been shaped [to a hexagonal form]. 

 The flat faces and angles are. too clean and sharp not to have been worked. 

 There is a lump on one of the angles which is the only portion not cut away. 

 The bottom is shouldered off all round, so far as I could feel." From a sketch 

 with dimensions, in Mr. Hibbert's letter, it appears that the hollow is 

 18 inches across, and 8| inches deep ; the margin round the hollow is of a 

 maximum breadth of 7 inches. The hollow is of the usual rounded form, not 



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