CromlechThe number of stones composing the cromlech of Howth is ten, including the table, a huge quartz block, of irregular form, measuring from north to south eighteen, and from east to west nineteen and a half feet. Its extreme depth is eight feet. The weight of this enormous mass appears to have been too great for the stones upon which it was placed to bear; and as they all have an inclination more or less towards the east, it is quite evident that the pressure gradually forced them from an upright position, till, bearing particularly upon a stone, which lies broken in two, the whole assumed its present dilapidated appearance. This cromlech, which must have been originally one of the finest in the country, stands almost in a line between the ruined church of St. Fenton and the castle of Howth, at a distance of about half a mile from the latter; and, since the formation of the railway, is most easy of access from Dublin.
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