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block of a second cist, 4 feet 7 inches long, 3 feet 3 inches high, and 

 13 inches thick. The supposed T-emains of a third seem to be a natural 

 rock. 



MiLTOWN. — I found the sides of the blown-up cist ("f," supra, 

 vol. xxiv., p. 112) in a low mound, 15 feet long north and south, 

 9 feet east and west. It was a small cist, 3 feet 6 inches wide and 

 long to 2 feet 6 inches wide. 



FoRTANNE. — It is in the barony of Tulla Upper, and near the cist 

 of Maryfort. It is the remnant of a slab enclosure on a low mound, 

 partly of small stones. Five slabs are visible ; but some are partly 

 buried or overgrown. The enclosure was somewhat oval, and varies 

 from 25 feet to 29 feet across. The larger slabs are 7 feet by 3 feet 

 by 1 foot ; 6 feet by 2|- feet by 8 inches, and 4:^ feet by 15 inches by 

 18 inches, the rest being much covered. It is of the class found at 

 Clooney and Eallyganner monuments, of doubtful purport to our 

 present '"knowledge." 



BoHATEY. — This townland belongs to that part of Iniscaltra 

 recently restored to Clare from Galway. The monuments lie not very 

 far from Cappaghbaun dolmen, and command even a finer view lying 



Cists of Bohatey and Kilcameex. 



on the heathery hills to the north of Lougli Derg, and looking over it 

 out to tbe Devil's Bit, the Galtees, and even to Mount Brandon in 

 Kerry, nearly 100 miles away. From the summit behind the dolmens, 

 I am told that the Connemara mountains are visible across Galway 

 Bay, some 70 miles to the north-west. 



The chief dolmen was first noticed by Captain Hibbert in the 

 Journal of the Limerick Field Club when describing a bronze spear, 

 with a curious looped shank, ^ which was found in the bog below. 



' Journal Limerick Field Club, vol. i., No. 2, p. 47. 



