. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. KILLAKEE AND ITS NEIGHBOUI?HOOn. 40 Mr. Borlase. in his iinixiitaiit work in\ tiic Doliiiciis of Ireland,says that it the i-oof rock was ever raised on them the crondechmust have Iklii one f)f tlie most magnificent megalithic monumentsin the world (1). A drawing by Gabriel Beranger, whose skill in])ortraying these inonnnients has been remarked, is here reproduced,and shows several more stones round the monumeiit than are now. Mount Venus Cromlech in 17S1. From
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. KILLAKEE AND ITS NEIGHBOUI?HOOn. 40 Mr. Borlase. in his iinixiitaiit work in\ tiic Doliiiciis of Ireland,says that it the i-oof rock was ever raised on them the crondechmust have Iklii one f)f tlie most magnificent megalithic monumentsin the world (1). A drawing by Gabriel Beranger, whose skill in])ortraying these inonnnients has been remarked, is here reproduced,and shows several more stones round the monumeiit than are now. Mount Venus Cromlech in 17S1. From a (Irniriinj hi/ Gabriel Beranger. to be seen. In a curious note in his sketch book Beranger putsforward a theory that this cromlech was overthrown by an earth-quake which is recorded to have been felt in Dublin in 1690 (-).The building on Tibradden Hill, from which an urn preserved inthe National Museum is said to have been taken, appears to havebeen originally a bee hive hut, such as has been found on thewest coast of Ireland. On this, at a subsequent time, a cairn waserected, and the roof of the hut has given way under its weight. Xotrace of a fortified dwelling is to be found within the parish,and it is probable that none ever stood upon the lands, which () See Borlases Dolmens of Ireland, vol. ii., p. 382, and for elaboratedrawings plan, and description, a paper On tlie Orientation of some the neiplibourhood of Dublin, by Professor J. P. OJJeiHy, in the Proceedingsof the. Royal Irish Academy, ser. iii., vol. iv., p. (iOO. (•) Gab
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