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   On the farm of Catherine O'Donnell townland of Caherduff, Parish of Munster an Aonaigh, is a pile of stones of a bulk to weigh perhaps upwards of six tons. They resemble "clover" stones in size; they are hardly as big as a man's fist. Some of them bear traces of fire on them but as the soil is peaty about them, that may be to an assumption that is not warranted Michael O'Donnell, who drew my attention to them some years ago, said he used hear such heaps called "fireplaces". Apparently there were others on the locality but I have not located them. Speaking on some kindred subject to Mr. J. Carroll coachbuilder, Croom, he informed me that when he was a boy in his native parish of Mountcollins, West Limerick, he knew of such heaps of stones, several of them, to occur in the bog of Meenahayle, Mountcollins, at a depth of from four to six feet below the surface of the bogland. The heaps, each of which he estimated would fill two "butt carts, were discovered during turf-cutting operations, and he states affirmatively that the stones were burnt, that is showed traces of the action of fire on them.

   The collection in Caherduff has not been interfered with except in so far as some others have been picked off the neighbouring fields and thrown on them. A number of forts occur in the imediate vicinity of this heap. I have not been able to see those stones recently but will do so.

   Mr. Thomas O'Regan Anhid Croom, declares he has an elks head in his father's house at Prúntas, Charleville which he dug up from a mornteán in that townland - Búntas.

   

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Daithí O Ceanntabhail

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir