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XVI. 



THE CISTS, DOLMENS, AKD PILLAES OF THE WESTEEIS" 

 HALF OF THE COUNTY OF CLARE. 



By THOMAS JOHNSON WESTEOPP, M.A. 

 Plates XXIII.-XXY. 



Eead June 10. Ordered for Publication June 12. Published July 31, 1907. 



The dolmens of Eastern Clare having been treated with considerable 

 detail in the Proceedings of this Academy, we are led to bring forward 

 briefer notes on the more numerous monuments of the western half of 

 the county, in order to complete as far as possible the list of its early 

 remains before the close of the older series of oar publications. 

 Though we do this somewhat earlier than we intended, it is in the 

 belief that longer and more systematic work in the past may have 

 put the field-work of this more difficult district on at least a par with 

 the notes on the eastern monuments. We also believe that, though 

 individual examples of various forms of dolmen may yet be discovered, 

 the survey is too far advanced for these to a:ffect the broad facts of 

 distribution and type. Beyond these questions we hardly venture to 

 advance at present. 



There are, it may be remembered, three preceding papers,^ which 

 maybe taken with the present one as covering the known dolmens, cists, 

 and pillars of Clare. The first, in 1897, aimed at giving a fuller list 

 than was then in print. It gave, besides the list, detailed accounts of 

 the monuments of Ballyganner Hill, Addroon, Corbehagh, Tyredagh, 

 and Caherloghan. The other two papers cover Eastern Clare, being 

 devoted to the baronies respectively of Upper and Lower Bunratty 

 and Upper and Lower Tulla. There is also a detached account of 

 the remains at Bally croum.^ 



^ Proc, Ser. iii., vol. iv., p. 542, xxiv. (C), pp. So, 107. 

 Ibid., Ser. iii., vol. vi., p. 85. 



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