[87] Trans. Roy. Ir. Acad., vol. xxxi., pt. vii., p. 334.

[88] Eccles. Arch., p. 445 et seq.

[89] Donough Cairbreach O’Brien (d. 1242) built a rath, and Brian Boru repaired many of the forts of Munster in his own lifetime.

[90] Scientific Transactions, Roy. Dub. Soc, vol. i., 2nd ser., p. 200.

[91] Catalogue R.I.A., p. 254; Journal Roy. Soc. of Antiq. Ir., 1885, p. 126.

[92] For a full description of Irish copper celts, see a paper by Mr. George Coffey in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. xxxi., p. 275.

[93] For an account of the ‘Early Metallurgy of Copper, Tin, and Iron, in Europe,’ see a paper by W. Gowland in Archæologia, vol. lvi., p. 267.

[94] Ten Years’ Digging in Egypt, p. 144.

[95] Egypt under the Great Pyramid Builders, by E. Wallis Budge (1902), page 136.

[96] Ten Years’ Digging in Egypt, page 28.