Identifier: historyofireland11845dalt (find matches)
Title: The history of Ireland, from the earliest period to the year 1245, when the Annals of Boyle, which are adopted and embodied as the running text authority, terminate: with a brief essay on the native annalists, and other sources for illustrating Ireland, and full statistical and historical notices of the barony of Boyle
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: D'Alton, John, 1792-1867
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Publisher: Dublin, Pub. by the author
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston College Libraries

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near Castle Connor, in the Countyof Sligo, there is. a yet more curious subterraneanpassage, running in a circle, and in its diameter open-ing on quadrangular chambers, built of vast archedstones. Ware, in his Antiquities has given a groundview of this latter cavern (PI. I. No. 5). Thosenear Portaferry,—^at Kilbixy,—and others, especiallyin the County Mayo, seem also referrible to this class,and Sampson, in his Memoirs of Londonderry(p. 330), mentions several as existing in that county.The southern section of the parish of Boyle, inwhich all the scenes heretofore described occur, isfurther embellished by some fine funeral mounts, or doos, as they are here sometimes termed, tlie word(/?/!« signifying, in Irish, a high niound. One ofthese is raised to a perpendicular height of aboutforty feet above an eminence called Knockmelliagh,situated within the demesne of Rockingham, andfromthe foot of which the annexed view was taken. Itwas once fosscd, but the fosse is now scarcely tracea-
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THE rAKTSII OF BOYLE. 79 Me. Another, and a finer specimen, gives mime toKnockadoo, about five miles westward, and withinthis parish ; it is about tlie same height as the last,but its fosse lias been preserved very perfect, and isat present hedged on the outer bank. On its top,large stones, that seem to have been once circularlyset, are now imbedded; the view of the surroundingcountry hence is very extensive, and two other si-milar mounds (a) are thence distinguishable at thesouth-east. On Knockadoo, a little below the mount,are traces of a large fort; while on another lull, im-mediately southward, is a distinct and noble fort,called Lis-na-di-aoi, i c., the fortified place of theMagi, or Druids. It is upwards of 100 feet in tliediameter of its summit, and, by remains yet very dis-cernible, is shewn to have had two fosses, the innerbeing about fourteen feet in width, the outer about11. There are other forts in this section of tJie pa-rish, three on Derrymaquirk, two on Lecarrow,one on

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