location was unkno\\iri. Mr. George Patton indicated the appro:ximate positio~ of part of the bank of a rath fonnation and oointcd out a bank some 2 it. high about 15 yards Jong. running api;::·roximately east and west. and near the centre of the rath. The bones were unearthed between this bank and the southern limit of the rat h . . The rnth or lis wh.ich must have been about 200 ft. in diameter, was divided approximately in half by a stone and sod wall at sorr..e period. The western half has not been traceable in living memory, a n d although Mr. Alfred Patton's house is on this ptirt of the site, nothing of in· terest was fow1d whun the foundations were opened. The eastern hal f was fairly clearly defined until destroyed by the excavation of a the construction Hydro - Electric Scheme. ch a n r.;;-, t1u::ing of the Ei:ne Dev·eloprnent Allingham mentions. in his " Ballyshannon: Its History and Antiquities," the existence of an ecclesiastical !is in the townland of Knat!ler and the unear'-'.ling of b~mes. Is this the !is on M::. Patten's land? P. A. Jackson. M.A., M.A.I., ,. Map of district where b~~1es were unearthed.
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