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IRELAND. 



PRESERVATION. 



CoKK. — Under the Irish Land Act, 1903, several earthworks 

 have been accepted by the Cork County Council, though the vesting 

 order has not yet been made by the Estates Commissioners. 



The Board of Works has accepted for preservation an earth- 

 work in Co. Cork called Caherragliar. 



Kekry. — The latter body has also accepted an earthwork called 

 Callinafercy in Co. Kerry, as well as the guardianship of about a 

 hundred stones, cahers, earthworks, beehive huts, etc., scattered over 

 the peninsula of Dingle, on the estate purchased by the Congested 

 District Board from Lord Ventry. 



DESTRUCTION. 



In Ireland generally there is an increasing number of instances 

 of the levelling and mutilation of earthworks by tenant owners, who 

 have obtained possession of their farms under the Land Purchase 

 Acts. In Co. Eoscommon an earthwork was levelled to make a site 

 for a labourer's cottage under the Act for providing such cottages. 

 Some years ago workmen could not be prevailed on to touch such 

 remains. Near Dunmanway, Co. Cork, a stone circle has been 

 destroyed, only one of its seven stones being left to serve as a 

 rubbing-post for cattle. 



EXPLORATION. 



Cork. — The great rath, or earthen fort, of Knockshan-a-wee, 

 near Crookstown, Co. Cork, has been excavated, and a souterrain 

 discovered 9 feet square. The chamber was roofed with large flag- 

 stones, supported on massive uprights. Each of the stones exposed 

 bore Ogham characters. 



