Wkstropp — Earthworks and Ring-walls in Couniy Limericlc. 465 



•5 feet by 3 feet. Adjoining " A " to the west, down the slope, is a later 

 annexe, crescent-shaped in plan (C), 30 feet across, with a fosse 6 feet wide ; 

 and another ring, 4 feet wide. A block, 3 feet 6 inches long, lies in the ditch 

 at its south junction with the main fosse. The field-fence cuts across the 

 middle ring, almost exactly 100 feet north from the extreme south edge of 

 the work, and 45 feet from the junction of " A. " and " B." The part of " B " 

 to the north of it is 21 feet across, much levelled. The fosse between it and 

 (D) is 6 feet wide. "D " has an inner ring, 12 feet thick, and hardly 3 feet 

 high, 36 feet across the garth each way; 60 feet over all.' In it, to the 

 north-west, is a loop, 12 feet across, like a hut-ring, but perhaps late. To 

 the N. N.W. lies "E," similar to the three eastern rings. The fosse between 

 is 8 feet wide, and marshy; the ring, 12 feet; the garth, 33 feet across; 

 with another block, 3 feet 6 inches long. The common fosse is 9 feet wide 

 and 2 feet deep here. From this field a low double fence, like an old road, 

 runs westward down the slope. I found a small, flat, rounded stone, perhaps 

 intended for a quern, set in the fence crossing " B." There may have been 

 another ring, without a fosse, down the road westward ; but the mound is 

 much defaced, and may be natural. The actual group of conjoined rings 

 measures, over all, about 200 feet to 218 feet, north and south.^ 



In the field, east of that with the tumuli (F), in the north fence of 

 Cooloughtragh, is a ring-mound, probably sepulchral (G) ; its fosse is 8 feet 

 wide and in parts 4 feet deep. The south part of the outerring to the south 

 is 5 feet to 7 feet thick. The central mound is about 7 feet high, with no 

 rampart : it is 37 yards round, and thickly covered with furze. 



In the field to the west were three tumuli (F), and possible traces of 

 another road down the slope. The south-east mound (a) is from 5 feet to 

 8 feet high, 62 feet round the base, with no fosse but a sort of spur to the 

 north. At 27 feet from it, to the south-west, is a second tumulus (b) with a 

 shallow fosse to the north and east, dry and rarely a foot deep, 9 feet wide. 

 The mound is little over 5 feet high, and is 90 feet round, thickly covered 

 with furze like its neighbour. At 54 feet N.N.E. from the last is a third, a 

 levelled mound (c), only a few feet high, 12 feet across, with a block of 

 conglomerate about 4 feet long on its base. 



At the north edge of the same field, and crossed by its fence, is a ring- 

 mound (H) ; its outer ring is 2 feet high and 12 feet thick, its shallow fosse 



^ One recalls the literary coincidence that Queen Tephi's mur, or rath, at Tara made 

 for her burial-place was 60 feet across (Metrical Dind Shenchas (ed. Gwynn), Todd Lect. 

 Ser., vol. viii, p. 5). 



2 For clearness the diagram slightly exaggerates its extent, following the Ordnance 

 Survey Maps (of 25 inches to the mile) therein. 



