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During the course of the past summer I have had the good fortune 

 to secure the valuable co-operation and indispensable assistance of the 

 owner of the property, James Lenox William Naper, Esq., D. L., 

 Loughcrew, by which means I have been enabled to make a more 

 thorough examination than I had hitherto done of these archaic remains. 

 Mr. Naper communicated with his agent, Charles William Hamil- 

 ton, Esq., J. P., Hamwood, Clonee, accompanied by whom, and by my 

 friend George Y. Du Noyer, Esq., I again -visited the Loughcrew Hills ; 

 and on consultation with Mr. Naper, who in the most generous and en- 

 lightened manner supplied the material aid in labour, a systematic plan 

 of examining all the cairns on the hills was determined upon. 



My own personal thanks are very eminently due to Mr. Naper and 

 to Mr. Hamilton for the great interest they evinced in the progress of 

 the work, visiting the hills nearly daily, and supplying, during the lat- 

 ter half of the month of September, as many men as with safety and 

 convenience could be employed. 



Mr. Hamilton communicated with Colonel Sir Henry James, E. E., 

 as to the omission of these cairns on the Ordnance Survey Maps ; and, 

 during the time that I recently spent in their investigation, a sapper 

 was sent from the Ordnance Department, Phoenix Park, with instruc- 

 tions to remeasure the hills, and to insert the cairns on a map -^Vo-; or 

 25*344 inches to a statute mile. A copy of this map is now before the 

 Academy; and having, in my former description of the place, only 

 roughly measured distances, &c, by stepping them, I now avail my- 

 self of the more accurate measurements of this map in the details which 

 are to follow. 



The map accompanying this paper has been reduced from the large 

 map to a scale of 2*64 inches to a statute mile. 



In my first notice of these hills I made use of the letters of the 

 alphabet in naming the cairns ; but, having since found that there are 

 remains of others not included in that description, I am now obliged to 

 mark these with index figures to some of the letters, in order that the 

 same letters as formerly used may still apply as the names of the 

 cairns. The hill on the western extremity of the range, attaining a 

 height of 842 feet, is situated in the parish of Loughcrew, and is called 

 Carnbawn. Here I have commenced to describe the relative positions 

 and dimensions of the cairns. 



A. 



Nearly all the stones which formed this cairn have been removed. 

 Its present remains are seven yards in diameter, and are situated sixty- 

 six yards south-east of D. Pour large stones still remain, marking out 

 the circumference of its base. 



A 2 . 



In a plantation, at a distance of 1 30 yards south of D, the remains of 

 a cairn are visible, but nearly level with the ground. It is nine yards 

 in diameter. One large stone still stands upright on the circumference, 

 and bears some evidences of apparently ancient sculpturing ; but, as 

 they are doubtful, I have not taken further notice of the markings. 



