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The tops of the upright stones were left visible, and the chambers them- 

 selves more than half filled up with loose stones and earth. On re- 

 moving these, the interior arrangement of the chambers was found, as 

 in most other cases, to be cruciform. The length of the passage alone, 

 which has a bearing of E. 20° S., is nine feet; and from the commence- 

 ment of the passage to the extremity of the opposite chamber is twenty 

 feet ; while the breadth across the chambers is ten feet. One of the 

 chamber stones is wanting, and another is displaced. "When the stones 

 which filled up these chambers were removed, the earth at the bottom, 

 in some places from twelve to eighteen inches in depth, was found to 

 be thickly mixed with splinters of burned bones. 



I was informed by an old herd on the mountain that he recollected 

 the chambers in this cairn, in their half-cleared-out state, to have been 

 used for culinary purposes by the men of the Ordnance Survey, when 

 encamped on Sliabh-na-Caillighe many years ago. 



There are thirteen inscribed stones in this cairn. 



There are some appearances of a cairn having stood about midway 

 between XJ and Y. 



V 



Is thirty-nine yards south-east from T, fifty-one yards south of U, and 

 is eleven yards in diameter. All the smaller stones which originally 

 formed the cairn have been carried away, leaving quite bare the upright 

 stones which formed the interior chambers, Eroru present appearances 

 these do not seem to have been arranged on any particular plan. The 

 greatest length of thejchambers, having a bearing of E. 20° S., is twenty- 

 one feet, and breadth ten feet. About a yard outside the circumference, 

 on the north-western side, stands an upright pillar stone, five feet above 

 ground, five feet six inches broad, and one foot six inches thick. 

 Digging round the base of this stone, in a fruitless search for engrav- 

 ings, I turned up a long, rounded, white sea pebble, which, from ap- 

 pearances, may have been used as a sling stone or a hammer. 



Eour of the upright stones in this cairn are inscribed. 



w 



Is 128 yards east of T. Its present remains appear nearly level with 

 the ground, and are seven yards in diameter. The single interior cham- 

 ber which this cairn contained is round, or well- shaped ; and, unlike 

 all the others, which appear to have been erected on the bare surface of 

 the ground, the earth seems to have been dug away for the construc- 

 tion of this chamber, six feet nine inches in diameter, formed by eight 

 flagstones placed on ends, fitting closely together, except in two in- 

 stances, and all having an inclination inwards at the bottom. A layer of 



