282 Griddle or Greidell Ine or Een. [Sess. 



large flat stone, which partly roofed the chamber, has recently 

 slipped down on its south-east side. 



This chamber, which is marked No. 1 on the plan, is 

 10 feet 2 inches in length, measured to the inner end of the 

 standing -stone. The measurement across this chamber is 

 6 feet 2 1 inches. 



The dimensions of the large stone, now in a sloping position 

 on the south-east of the chamber, and which, until recently, 

 formed part of its roof, is at the broadest and widest parts 

 6 feet 6 inches. 



The height of the highest upright stone is 5 feet 3 inches. 

 Behind the large chamber, on the south and south-east, are 

 three small stones embedded in the ground, which may have 

 formed part of some structure. They are shown upon 

 the plan. 



From what is said by Prof. Sullivan in the Introduc- 

 tion to the ' Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish * 

 (E. O'Curry, p. cccxxxv), Greidell Ine or Een seems to 

 have been a true tumulus or dumay from having a chamber 

 or dum containing the ashes or bodies of the dead in or 

 under it. 



A burial-mound, with a chamber, built over a derc, seems 

 also to have been called in Ireland a fert, and these 

 structures appear to have been constructed with a varying 

 number of doors, according to the kind of burial for which 

 they were to be used. 



The " Tale of the First Battle of Magh Tuired " says : " A 

 Fert of one door for a man of Science." — MS. Trin. Col., 

 Dublin, H. 2-17, p. 91. This description would suit 

 Greidell Ine or Een, as it appears to have had only one 

 entrance. 



The full quotation from the 'Book of Lecan,' fol. 258, 

 A.C., is as follows: — 



" A fert of one door for a man of Science. 

 A fert of two doors upon a woman. 

 A fert without doors, without trennai,i 

 For boys and for maidens. 



^ Trennai — The three days devoted to the Guba, or funeral rites of deceased 

 persons of distinction. — (Prof. SulHvan's Introduction to O'Curry, vol. i. p» 

 cccxxxi and p. dcxli.) 



