Excerpt from Sketches of Some of the Southern Counties of Ireland: Collected During a Tour in the Autumn, 1797; In a Series of Letters The ancient Irish burned their dead, and deposited the ashes in urns, of which many have been found, containing bones, ashes, and a jelly-like consistence, which was pro bably flesh. At Killimeille, near Dungannon, on the top of a hill, were two circles of stones joining each other, form ing a figure of eight, each about twenty yards in diameter, being repositories for urns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.