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filled up — it has been used as a ring for training young horses. 

 I see by the ordnance map that the municipal boundary passes 

 right through this site. 



Further up the road by the side of Glencairn, and nearly 

 opposite Frazer's Loaning, there is a rath, partly planted, on 

 Kirkwood's farm. Its total diameter is about one hundred and 

 thirty-three feet, the rampart and fosse remaining on the one 

 side, but removed on the other. Where remaining the ram- 

 part is three feet higher than the central plain, which is one 

 hundred and nine feet in diameter, whilst the trench is six feet 

 deeper than the rampart. 



Close to this on the west side of Frazer's Loaning there is 

 another small fort, and there are two others lying between the 

 new Whietrock road and the little white Church ; then down 

 the Whiterock road there is another to the north before you 

 come to what is called Calender's Fort, which was of consider- 

 able dimensions, and is situated in the townland of Ballydown- 

 fine, or the town of the white fort. 



Drawing a line due west from the Linen Hall I think I have 

 mentioned all the raths and forts within a radius of three miles 

 from the Exchange in the Co. Antrim. I leave the other end 

 of the town to some member who may reside on that side. 



My intention in placing on record these apparently unimpor- 

 tant details is simply to have a record of the interesting his- 

 torical features of our immediate district, and to prevent the 

 passing into oblivion of the primitive haunts and residences of 

 the early inhabitants of Dalaradia. The large number of these 

 earthworks that still remain to us, although doubtless many 

 have been removed, conclusively prove that in the early ages 

 the site of our city was not a desert region, but was amply 

 inhabited by an industrious race of people, for the remains they 

 have left clearly prove that they must have been both numerous 

 and industrious. This ancient race has passed away and the 

 land shall know them no more. 



