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with long lintels of crag limestone. A small bullaun, or basin, has been 

 picked and then partly ground into a sandstone boulder near it. A second 

 caher, most completely levelled, is near the farm-house to the south-west ; 

 there we noticed a perfect and neat sandstone quern, with a raised ring 

 on the upper stone.'' I find no mention of Caherscooby before 1641 ; it is 

 called Le carowskobe in 1655, and Leahcarroo-ne-Scuoby in the Survey of 

 " 1675.'"- 



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Cahernacalla Fort, Balltcarr. 



Caheknacalla (42). — This is the " Carrownakilly " of the Surveys of 

 1655 and 1839. Locally, however, it is now reputed to take its name from 

 the fort on the west shore of Ballycarr Lake, and is called Cahernacallow, 

 Cahernacalla, and Cahernakilly, divergently. The caher may Ije described 

 as " a cliff-fort without a cliff'," being of that characteristic plan — two rings, 



1 Miss Gwendoline C. Stacpoole first examined these forts, and found the bullaun stone. 

 - " Book of Distribution," p. 153 ; Edenvale Survey, p. 6. This seems to show that it may not 

 be a " caher" name. 



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