180 



in diameter. The monuments to which attention is now directed present 

 numbers of the cup -shaped hollows, unaccompanied by circles. 



Five of them are the covering stones of large cromlechs, and Dean 

 Graves thinks that there is reason to believe that the hollows were de- 

 signedly arranged in certain alignments. The monuments, however, 

 have been so much defaced by the action of the weather during hun- 

 dreds, perhaps thousands of years, that it is hardly safe as yet to insist 

 positively upon this point. 



Dean Graves remarks that the occurrence of these symbols on what 

 are undoubtedly sepulchral monuments may help towards the discovery 

 of their signification. A huge block, found by Mr. Alfred Graves, at 

 Loher, near Darrynane, and exhibiting some of these hollows, serves as 

 the covering stone to a sepulchral chamber excavated in the earth under 

 it; a narrow covered gallery, of twenty-four feet in length, constructed 

 in the ordinary way, leads to the subterraneous chamber. Though 

 careful search was made in it for human or other remains, nothing was 

 found, with the exception of a few fragments of charcoal, and a portion 

 of a charred bone. 



Scale, -j^th of an inch to 1 foot. 



The other monuments described in Dean Graves's paper were found 

 in the following localities : — One in the island of Valencia ; another, 

 near Cahirciveen ; a third, near AVaterville bridge ; and two more, near 

 Sneem. 



The Dean concluded by expressing his expectation that artificial 



