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Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
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outh), lies east of Ballybaun Housewhere the R of the parish name Kilfenora is marked on themaps. The herdsman of Ballybaun knew of the other forts, but saidthey were hardly noticeable. There is a curious single block ofstone with a battlementled outline in the last described liss,6 feet by 3 feet by 8 inches, like the side of a dolmen save for itsirregular top. Caheremon1 is hardly traceable at a bend of the road north fromKilfenora. Petrie calls it a fine remain if he be not confusingit with Ballykinvarga. Dutton in 1808 calls it Caheromond, andadds that its walls were covered with orpine. It is said to have hadtwo rings, but I found bare trace of the ring of small filling of one.I seem to recollect the walls as standing in 1878 and 1887, but maybe mistaken. 1 Petrie, Military Architecture of Ireland; Hcly Duttons Statistical Survey,Appendix, p. 12. Orpine, or live long, sedum telephium, covers the walls ofan old fort, called Cahiromond, near Kilfenora. Plate XXI ) (To face page 264
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BALLYK1NVARGA GATE PREHISTORIC REMAINS IN BURREN 265 Fanta Glebe contains a cathair, utilised as a feature in theRectory garden, the former residence of the Protestant Deans ofKilfenora. It is a fairly complete ring of small stonework, 105 feetover all, and is thickly planted and quite featureless. Ballygannee, Hill (0. S. 9, 16).—Though far from certain thatI have exhausted this most important group that the apatheticarchaeology of the last century left to my exploration, I mustendeavour to close these notes. In 1896 I had to reserve thedolmens for Mr. W. Borlase with other limitations, which must bemy plea for merciful criticism. Only the two fine dolmens of Bally -ganner Hill and Clooneen had been accurately sketched and de-scribed at that time, while the unique Ballykinvarga fort was almostneglected and quite mis-described. I recently found that the westopening of the first named dolmen had been closed by a slab (likethe sixth dolmen at Parknabinnia) ; 1 so violently and injudic

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