The C<•lre- n t"We ;1nv_,,1:5 the hills near the :.tone drc!e (?) dc.-;r:ri hcrl. NOTE-This exre:Jent litt:e u!'!~ ~fr•f•td :<:; n·cy wr~ : ~: ··'° t lo l\lr. l"l<J:~ T.<Jchlainn in r<:!spnnse to his ;)ppc:;1! sent out in J !l:H on t he fo:-:nation of the County Council committee for preservation of Lo::a~ :\lonuments)- EDITOR. Antiquities In ~,nd Around Kiltybegs 1-Stragar - (0.S. 91, 92) si:-; large stones standing in a rough ellipticac space and some distance apart. Evidently a grave monument. 2-Cat•rickna:mohill - :\'1egalithic Monument with do!men at one end-running N. and S. 1t has every appearance of being a burial monument. 3- Roughwood - Altar Rock (i i)Thc traces of an old double Fort ( Caiseal). Splendidly chosen for defensive purpos~s. 4- Croaglilin-Sgreug an Aifrin:1 (a cross is cut on fa:e of iock in front o.f supposed .Mas~; stone. The cross which seem:-; to be the work of recent hands is 13" b;.- !J" and plain) 5-Largy na Greana (0/S. !Jl , 97) - Roger's Farm - A raised mound of earth for'.'Tl i ng a rough circle about 33 yds in diameter and seern::; to be ti1c se:::t of a r.rannog.- The Joeal people say that it was a plar-3 used for training horses. A paved pafr, led froni_ thi:; "Guir-tin" (loca} name) . G·-A double ring fort 180 yds further No1th, 0!1 sarne for !n lmov.:.11 lot'ally as Caiscal Chnraigh. Thjs F ort is. nr was, almost circular but about one sixth of it has been quar1ied away to make room for -i garden and the stones have been used in the boundary walls. 7- To the north of the ring fort (VI.) is a fine specimen of dolmen running East and West ; but 6 feet of the western e!1d has b.:en removed t•J clear a way Jor a road. What rerr.ains is wedge shaped S feet at c:osed and narrow end and 6 feet at wider end, wherl.) portion has been removed. It is about ~ixteen feet long an'.! very well covered \•,;i th m ;i5sive s~abs of rock. R-On top of a hill in 1~ext townland, Lisnac:eithc. i~ an "alta!" rock" from which the hill - Cnoc-na-hAltoire ta!,es its name. Tile Mass-rock measures 9' x ~r. and strelehing eastward~ from the ro~·k is a row of 14 standi!"g stones - some almost touching, others about a foot al)a1t - which may be termed an "Alignment. ·-Tn .Lias na Cleithe there ar~ the remains of. the lios from whkh 1he townlanc\ takes its
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