[27] Dolmens of Ireland, p. viii.
[28] Ibid., p. 430.
[29] Dolmens of Ireland, vol. i., p. 8.
[30] Maol may be interpreted ‘servant of.’
[31] Some doubt has been thrown on the story as told in the ‘Annals’: see Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1897, p. 430.
[32] The Rev. Maxwell Close makes the dimensions 12¼ feet by 9¼ feet, and 5¾ feet thick.
[33] Proceedings Roy. Ir. Acad., 3rd Series, vol. v., No. 3.
[34] The three distinct groups of rocks on the Three-Rock Mountain, a familiar natural feature from the suburbs of Dublin, were considered by Beranger to be ‘Druidical remains.’ From a distance they appear like cairns, but they were never raised by human hands, and their interest is entirely geological.
[35] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1896, p. 93; and 1876, p. 95.
[36] Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1872, p. 523.