256 Elcock — Pre-Historic Monuments at Carrowmore. 
The porch is very striking. The smallest circle is forty feet in 
diameter, and consists of small stones, much covered by the 
grass, so as to be nearly hidden. The middle arc e is eighty 
feet in diameter, and is formed of twelve large stones. The 
outermost circled one hundred and twenty feet in diameter^ 
and is composed of twelve much larger stones, some of which 
have been displaced. See sketch No. 7. 
This list mentions all the cromleacs which are perfect m 
1 883 Ruins and traces of others, with single, double, and even 
triple chambers in them, are numerous, no less than twenty 
being traceable, though many more formerly stood on Carrow- 
m There is one very fine circle not far from No. 37 , some of the 
stones of which stand seven feet above ground. Three or four 
have slipped from their places owing to the carting away of the 
gravel from the mound on which the circle stands. There are 
traces of cists or cromleacs within this circle, and on stamping 
the ground, it sounds as if hollow. Origina y . ov y 
stones stood round the edge of this circle, which is seventy to 
eighty feet in diameter. . , „ A 
In a field about three hundred yards east of this circ , 
on the left of the road to Cloverhill, is a stone cist. 1 
tops of the stones are level with the ground. Some of the 
stones are carved with very rude scnbmgs, an one » 
entrance has on the edge what looks very much like ^Ogham 
inscription. The drawings of these sculptures in Ferguson 
“ Rude Stone Monuments” are not correct. 
At the extreme northern end of the battle-field is st 
seen the well of very fine water, never known to be dry, at 
which the Firholgs are said to have drunk on the day of the 
battle. Its Irish name is “Tober na Ffian,”-the Warrior’s 
Well. 
A very short distance north of the Well stands a very 
remarkable solitary stone. It is called “ Cloch-breac, The 
Grey [or Speckled] Stone. It is a flagstone standing on 
