The Bronze Age in Ireland

by George Coffey

Copper celts have been found practically over the whole country; and the following is a list of those in the National Collection, of which the localities are known, and, as well as these, there are about eighty for which the provenance has not been exactly recorded:—

List of Copper Celts found in Ireland.

Antrim, Craigbally, 1 (1897: 111).

Fig. 4.—Copper Celts.

Cavan, 1 (R. 1685).

Cork, Cappeen (6); County Cork, 1 (1881: 136).

Donegal, Letterkenny, 1 (1897: 114).

Dublin, Suffolk Street, 1857: 2 large copper celts. (Ray Collection.)