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narrow horizontal face of the northern stone, which slopes down- 

 wards, and in an eastern direction, is a serpentine engraving, which 

 I have taken separately, as well as in conjunction with the engrav- 

 ings on the face of the same stone. 

 Y — Is thirty-eight yards from T, and about as many in circumference. 

 The large stones forming the chambers of this cairn are laid quite 

 bare, and present the appearance in Diagram No. 2 C. About a 

 yard outside the circumference, on the north-western side, stands 

 an upright pillar stone, five feet above ground, six feet broad, and 

 one foot thick. Digging at the base of this, in a fruitless search 

 for engravings, I turned up the long, rounded, white pebble which 

 I submit, and which may have been used as a sling stone, or a 

 hammer. 



"W — Is represented in Diagram No. 2 E, and is at present nearly level 

 with the ground. It is about fifteen feet in diameter, and 120 

 yards from T. In the centre, a very curious, well- like chamber, 

 six feet six inches in diameter, is laid bare to the depth of four feet, 

 and is formed by seven flags, placed on ends, fitting closely toge- 

 ther, except in two instances, and all having an inclination inwards 

 at the bottom. An eighth stone now stands a little inwards, but 

 this has evidently been misplaced from the close-fitting boundary. 



X — Passing from the middle, and midway up the eastern peak, are 

 found, close together, the remains of three stone circles. One of these 

 circles, consisting of nine stones, and one about the centre of the in- 

 closure, is still perfect. The second circle has now remaining only 

 seven stones in its circumference, with two flat stones inside the in- 

 closure. On the face of the largest of these two stones, and about the 

 middle of it, is cut, with perfect precision, to the depth of three 

 inches, a circular hole, six and a half inches in diameter. The 

 third circle is more imperfect than the second, containing in its 

 present circumference only six stones. 



Y — Has been 101 paces in circumference. Nearly the entire of this 

 once very conspicuous cairn, as it crowned the peak, has been taken 

 away by Mr. Eotheram, and used up in building the adjoining 

 fences. A few cart loads of the stones only now remain. 



Z — At the base of the eastern peak, on the south side, stands the 

 Moat of Patrickstown. It measures 115 paces round the base, 

 forty-five feet in slant height, and forty paces round the circumfe- 

 rence at the top, which is flattened. This tumulus is situated on 

 the top of a small sloping eminence, in a green field, and is crowned 

 by a mutilated whitethorn tree, growing on the eastern border. It 

 is covered with earth and grass ; but is said to consist of stone 

 chambers in the interior. 



I have now exhausted the alphabet, and, I fear, your patience ; but 

 not by any means the subject. A short distance south of the Moat of 

 Patrickstown, in what is now called the townland of Thomastown, have 

 stood, until the spring of this year, twenty-one tumuli, each from six to 



