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the name of " Rhuillick-y-lagg-shliggagh," graveyard of 

 broken slates. This name however we have ascertained 

 belongs without doubt to the circle down at the Calf 

 Sound a mile or so to the South, and we had no difficulty 

 in discovering the true name of the Meayll Circle, for it 

 is still in actual use among the fishermen, who take its 

 prominent stones in a line with the Calf as a mark for one 

 of their fishing grounds, and apply to it the name of the 

 ancient village in the hollow immediately below (which 

 of course is riot visible from the sea), Lag-ny-Boirey, or 

 hollow of botheration. 



The circle (see fig. 10) is formed of six symmetrically 

 arranged sets of cists or stone chambers, each set — for 

 which we propose the term " tritaph " — being composed 

 of one radial cist and two tangentially placed. Three 

 tritaphs form the eastern half of the circle and three form 

 the western, leaving considerable gaps or entrances at 

 north and south. The south entrance measures 16 feet in 

 a line with the external circumference, while the 

 corresponding opening at the north is 18 feet across. The 

 north to south diameter measures 50 feet, and the east to 

 west 57 feet. A circular mound of loose stones and earth 

 packed on to the external circumference of the cists slopes 

 to 3 or 4 yards beyond the above measurements, and the 

 whole may have formed a " disc-shaped Barrow," such as 

 there appear to be traces of elsewhere in the Island. 



There is some indication of a cist or chamber of some 

 kind having formerly been in the centre, but it has 

 evidently been previously disturbed and is no longer 

 recognisable. Although there are slight differences in 

 size and proportion between the different tritaphs they are 

 all built on the same plan, viz., two large cists placed end 

 to end running along the circumference of the circle, and 

 one rather longer narrower one directed radially outwards 



