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ten feet high, and ranging from fourteen to thirty paces in circumference, 

 about ten yards distant from one another, on an average, and grouped in 

 a circle. They have been constructed of stones in the centre, covered 

 by about two feet of earth. Fourteen of these only now remain, the 

 others having been torn up for the sake of the stones they contained, 

 and have been used in the construction of an adjoining new fence, running 

 through the sites of some of them, by Mr. W. Stowell Garnet, the owner 

 of the soil. This piece of wanton destruction is much to be regretted, 

 as nothing could be more picturesque than the position of these tumuli, 

 on elevated ground, gradually sloping down to the centre of the circle 

 formed by them, and ending in a round pool of water, sixty paces in cir- 

 cumference. Looking from this spot, are to be seen in every direction 

 numerous raths. 



About a mile and a half from Sliabh-na-Caillighe, on the north, stands 

 an engraved stone (see Eubbing 5), in the middle of a large pasture field. 

 The elevation on which it stands is called the King's Mountain; and 

 there is a tradition in the locality that a king was buried under the 

 stone. Eeing at present used as a rubbing stone for cattle, it could not 

 be expected that the stone should still preserve its original complete- 

 ness — some pieces are broken off its sides and top. It is seven feet 

 six inches high, three feet broad, and about six inches thick. On its 

 present site, up to a few years ago, stood a tumulus, which the proprie- 

 tor of the field caused to be carried away for top-dressing. In the centre 

 of the mound was found a chamber filled with bones, and constructed of 

 smaller engraved flagstones, supporting the present upright stone. It is 

 not known what has become of the other carved stones. 



The large moats of Diamor, Ealgree, Dervor, and Girley are not far 

 distant. 



There are also several ancient caves in the immediate neighbourhood. 

 Mot far from the base of the eastern peak is that of Eelview. The width 

 of the passage at the entrance (see Diagram) is three feet five inches, 

 the height four feet four inches, and the length forty-four feet six inches. 

 The cave then widens out in the form of a circle, whose diameter is 

 thirteen feet ten inches ; height of the wall, eight feet up to where the 

 beehive-shaped arched roof commences, — all formed of dry stones, with- 

 out any cement, and terminating with a large flag on top. 



Near the base of the western peak is a still more remarkable double 

 cave (see Diagram). It was discovered about 1824, in the garden be- 

 longing to Loughcrew House, by a labourer who was trenching the 

 ground, and came upon one of the large flags on top. The entrance is 

 seven feet below the entrance of the garden, and the common passage 

 from the entrance to the place where it branches right and left is forty- 

 seven yards long, from three to four and a half feet high, and has a 

 slope of two and a half feet for the first nineteen yards ; it then rises ab- 

 ruptly two and a half feet, and has a slope of two and a half feet to the 

 end. The continued passage then branches right and left ; that on the 

 right being four feet broad, from three and a half to four feet high, with 

 a slope upwards of two and a half feet for ten feet in length, until it 



