232- Gray — Irish Cromlechs. 
Near Coagh, County Derry, or about five miles east of 
Cookstown, there is a very fine cromlech, locally known as 
“ The Tamlacht Stone”— i.e., the plague stone. Here we have 
the ancient Irish name “ leacht" popularly applied to a genuine 
cromlech. We may, therefore, reasonably accept the term 
“Cromlech” as a qualification of the generic Irish term 
“ Leacht”— and expressive of their usual leaning or bending 
character, due probably in many cases to the fact that their 
original constructers were not able to obtain suitable supporters 
and in other cases, where such supports gave way with time. 
The qualification “ crom” is, therefore, indicative of a bending 
with age, and is very significant. 
What we require is a specific term applicable to the particular 
group of monuments we wish to describe, and expressive of 
their present structural condition, without involving any theory 
as to their original condition or object, and the term Crom 
lech” meets these requirements fully. 
The majority of our sepulchral monuments are more or less 
chambered, but they are separable into groups, each being very 
distinct in character. Our chambered tumuli are quite distinct 
from our kistvaens, and both differ so widely from our crom- 
lechs that they could not be grouped under one head. 
We have a capital example of the chambered tumulus crown- 
ing the hill of Carnanmore, East Torr, in the parish of Cul- 
feightrin, County Antrim. This is the subject of our first 
illustration, which shows a distinct chamber formed of blocks of 
stones, roofed by large flags, and all closed or covered over by a 
great heap of small stones. There is scarcely a feature common 
to it and a Cromlech. See Sketch No. 1. 
Farther south in the same county, on the high ground three 
and a half miles from Carnlough, on the road to Ballymena, we 
have the subject of our second illustration— Doonan Fort— an 
example of a tumulus and kistvaen totally unlike what is 
understood as a cromlech, and which could not be grouped 
under that head. See Sketch No. 2. 
Certain chambers of kistvaens may occasionally be found that 
