[17] The cave is known by the name ‘Gillie’s Hole,’ and was used as a retreat, about a hundred years ago, by a pair of lovers who, in consequence of an imprudent marriage, had been discarded by their friends. Such is the local legend.
[18] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1895, p. 64.
[19] April, 1865.
[20] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1883, p. 174.
[21] This—the Royal Society of Antiquaries—collection has been transferred, with the exception of objects of a local interest, to the National Museum, Kildare-street, Dublin.
[22] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1874–5, note, p. 281.
[23] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1868–9, p. 349.
[24] Ibid., 1874–5, p. 460.
[25] Prehistoric Scotland, p. 279.
[26] Mr. G. A. Lebour, in Nature, May 9th, 1872, speaking of the character of the principal dolmens and cist-bearing mounds of Finisterre, says that ‘in most cases in that department the dolmens occupy situations in every respect similar to those in which the tumuli are found, so that meteorological, and indeed every other but human, agencies must have affected both in the same manner and degree. Notwithstanding this, the dolmens are invariably bare, and the cists are as constantly covered; there are no signs of even incipient degradation and denudation in the latter, and none of former covering in the first.’