Westropp — Cids, Bolmem, and PiUars of Co. Clare. 4(i7 



APPENDIX A. 



Some IJNDEsrTiiBED Monuments. 



Kllcuertsh (25). Two cists, not marked on tlie Survey. One 

 on the ridge to the north of Kilcurrish Church has fallen ; the shapely 

 sides, 7 feet 2 inches, and over 6 feet long, are under a cover, 6 feet 

 3 inches by 5 feet. A curious rock lies to the west, and beyond it a 

 dilapidated ring-wall, 130 feet from the cist. The caher is 111 feet 

 in diameter east and west, 102 feet north and south inside ; to the west, 

 on a hill, is a cairn of large slabs, 57 feet across, and 8 feet high. The 

 second cist lies in the valley north from the ridge. The sides consist 

 each of two large, coarse slabs, with end-slabs and one cover (formerly 

 two). The chamber is 9 feet 10 inches by 4 feet over all; the 

 cover, 6 feet 8 inches by 5 feet, and, like the sides, from 10 inches 

 to 14 inclies thick. ^ 



Ballyneillan. — This chambered cairn lies over three miles from 

 Ennis, near Shallee Castle, upon a bushy crag. It is shown on the 

 new Survey map, near *'Poulee," lying due north from the 

 conspicuous cairn on Carran Hill. It is a heap of moderate-sized 

 stones, about 74 feet across, and was entire till 1874, when, in 

 removing the stones for road-metal (with permission of Mr. W. 

 Kelly, of Craglea), some workman broke into its chamber, nearly in 

 the middle of the heap. The Rev. Patrick White, c.c., of Ennis, 

 hearing of this, visited the spot and secured a skull, which had been 

 broken in two, but otlierwise well preserved. Dr. Charles James 

 examined the bones, which proved to be of two persons, the smaller 

 probably a woman. The late Mr. John Hill, c.e., and others 

 described the find to the Archaeological Association at Kilkenny, but 

 no plans were published. The chamber had a clay floor ; and we 

 found small fragments of bones very friable and white. The structure 

 is irregularly hexagonal in plan, lined with upright slabs from 3^ feet 

 to 4 feet high over the debris; above these projects a corbelling, the 

 contracted space overhead being covered with larger slabs. The cell 

 is rarely over 5 feet long in any direction. It is in Kilnamona parish 

 in Inchiquin. 



Carnelly. — A megalithic monument entirely overthrown. It lies 

 beside an earthen ring, with a central garth ; the ring is 12 feet to 

 15 ftt't wide ; the garth, 96 feet across ; there is a slight trace of a 



^ The first was iiieiitioned to Dr. MacNamara ; wheu searching for it, we found 

 the second in a clearing among the hazels. 



