Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . s. There is thus a curious similarity inthe distances between the members of the group of stones taken asa whole. The bearing (taken with a prismatic compass on 26 ) from the centre of the opening between stones Nos. 3 and 4over the top of stone No. 1 and through the standing gallaun was230°. The measurements of the stones are as follows :—1 Height Width Thickness (of inner face) No. 1. 3 9 3 0 0 9 5 J 2. 3 9 2 0 1 0 91 3. 4 8 2 0 V 2 5 5 4. 4 4 2 3 V 2 35 5. 4 r V 7 V 3 No. 1 is a round-topped stone, thin and flat, and very lik
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . s. There is thus a curious similarity inthe distances between the members of the group of stones taken asa whole. The bearing (taken with a prismatic compass on 26 ) from the centre of the opening between stones Nos. 3 and 4over the top of stone No. 1 and through the standing gallaun was230°. The measurements of the stones are as follows :—1 Height Width Thickness (of inner face) No. 1. 3 9 3 0 0 9 5 J 2. 3 9 2 0 1 0 91 3. 4 8 2 0 V 2 5 5 4. 4 4 2 3 V 2 35 5. 4 r V 7 V 3 No. 1 is a round-topped stone, thin and flat, and very like arough tombstone ; the others are either irregularly triangular orquadrilateral. (2) On the same sheet of the , and a little to the north-west of the monument just described there is marked a StoneCircle. I visited this object some time ago with Mr. MichaelMurphy, solicitor, of Cork, to whom I am indebted for the photo 1 The plan is only approximately to scale, as the monument was not surveyedwith a theodolite. Plate XXXIII ] [To face page 316. STONE HOUSE MISCELLANEA 317 and the information as to the name of the townland. We had somedifficulty in identifying the object, for, as will be seen from thephoto, it is not a stone circle in the scientific use of the term, buta circle of stones forming the remains of a collapsed clochan. ?
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