244 Gray — Irish Cromlechs. 



4. LOUGHMONEY CROMLECH. 



Sketch No. 4. 

 The parish of Saul, so closely identified with the life and 

 labours of St. Patrick, is rich in antiquarian remains, of which 

 the cromlech of Loughmoney is one of the most interesting. 

 It is in a good state of preservation, and stands in a field close 

 to the public road, a few miles east of Downpatrick. The cap 

 stone measures nine feet six inches by five feet three inches, 

 supported by only two stones on edge, each seven feet by three 

 feet, forming a chamber about two feet ten inches wide, and at 

 present open at both ends. 



5. LOUGHANISLAND CROMLECH. 



Sketch No. 5. 

 On the north shore of Loughanisland lake, four miles south 

 of Crossgar and four miles west by north of Downpatrick, near 

 the Buck's Head Tavern, in the townland of Annadorn, there 

 is a cromlech having a well-defined chamber of four large blocks 

 of stone, with a cap stone measuring eight feet by seven feet. 

 The latter has been turned over a little from its normal position. 

 Some years ago a utilitarian wanting building materials set about 

 demolishing this cromlech by a powder blast. A splinter of 

 rock fell on and damaged the roof of his dwelling-house — an 

 incident he took to be an omen of bad luck, and quietly gave 

 up the undertaking. 



6. SLIDDERY-FORD CROMLECH. 



Sketch No. 6. 

 Within a mile of Dundrum, at Sliddery-Ford, on the New- 

 castle road, in the townland of Wateresk, there is a very perfect 

 cromlech. The cap stone, a granite block, measures seven feet 

 six inches by seven feet six inches, or nineteen feet six inches in 

 girth, covers a chamber formed of three blocks of stone, one 

 being six feet high. In Dubourdieu's statistical survey of County 

 Down, page 271, he describes a circle of twelve standing stones 

 near this cromlech. At present there are but two in the 



