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sunken ways from Kincora to it, — along one of which the dinner was carried, the servants returning by the other, — but I always found Balboruma identified with Kincora. De Latocnaye in 1797 ^ heard that the fort where the Shannon issues from the lake was " O'Bryan Borhom's palace." O'Donovan was told that the walls of Kincora were of dry stone, but when he subsequently visited Killaloe in 1S39 he found that no old person remembered the building as still standing ; so it was evident that his earlier informant regarded Balijoruma as Kincora.'' There was said to be a passage under the river from the fort to County Tii^perary, and on Craglea the precipice and well were still connected with the banshee. In 1893 the Grianan Lachtna fort was said to be a house of King Brian, the Parc-an-each his horse paddock, and the Cloch- aniona (clock an fhiona) his wine cellar." The last named is a late-looking ivied ruin across the river, in Tipperary. Thanks to Mr. Robert White of Kincora House, and the Parkers of Bally- valley, I was put on the track of many local stories in 1892-4, before modern changes had affected them.

One of the chief localized tales was about the " Graves of the Leinster Men " and Lachtrelyon on the flank of Thountinna mountain in Co. Tipperary to the north-east of Killaloe. At the former were some low standing stones and an old avenue, and at the latter a huge rock behind which were traces of a cairn. The latter was called in English "The Leinster Man's Grave" and " The Leinster King's Grave," or, in Irish, Knockaunrelyon and Lachtrelyon {cnocdn or leacht-righ laigheaii). When the cairn was partly removed, a large human skeleton and rusted iron weapons were found. These were given or sold to a Mr. Molloy, but I could not trace their ownership in 1892. The tale then ran that

^Promenade iVnn franfois en Irlande, p. 153.

people of the neighbourhood to separate Kincora from Balboruma ; it had arisen in 1843, for in Hall, loc. cit., we find that "his kitchen was at Kincora where the steamboat station now is."'
 * It was probably the revival of the name at the modern house that led the

'The Ordnance Survey Letters (Co. Tipperary), vol. ii., p. 28(1840), render it "stone of the wine," but clock is very common for a castle, and sometimes used for a church ; e.g. Cloghnarold, Harold's Castle (Co. Limerick), Cloghan- savaun (Co. Clare), Cloghjordan (Co. Tipperary), and many more.