[231] Proceedings R.I.A., vol. v., p. xxxvii.
[232] Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland, vol. v. (New Series), pp. 228-9.
[233] “A Letter from Major Wood,” &c.; also, Story’s History, part, ii., p. 73.
[234] The “finds” were as follows:—An iron cuirass, ornamented with sunk lines and projecting pigeon-breast medial line; it was furnished with hook and staple to fasten the “back-piece” to the “breast.” This piece of armour was undoubtedly of the seventeenth century; a matchlock, barrel thirty-six inches long; a gun-barrel of small calibre; three pistol-barrels; an iron halbert—a fine sixteenth century specimen; an iron spade, trowel, chisel, axe, and door-bolt; an iron skean or dagger, thirteen inches long, and another, four and a-half inches long; a small iron knife; two sword-blades, twenty-six inches in length; a nondescript article of iron; three curiously-wrought iron keys; a fragment of a bronze ornament; two iron spurs of antique shape; a “spindle-whorl” of stone; a bronze ladle; a bronze spear-head, and a very curiously-shaped brick.
[235] Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland, vol. i. (3rd Series), p. 157. Ibid, vol. ii. (New Series), pp. 71-5.
[236] Wakefield’s Account of Ireland, vol. i., p. 94.
[237] Proceedings R. I. A., vol. ix., pp. 176-9.—H. B. Trench and G. H. Kinahan.
[238] Omitting the ideal restoration, [fig. 213] is reproduced from a Paper by R. J. Ussher and G. H. Kinahan, as is also [fig. 212].
[239] Journal Royal Hist. and Arch. Asso. of Ireland, October, 1879. Proceedings R. I. A. (2nd Series), vol. ii., December, 1880.—R. J. Ussher and G. H. Kinahan.
[240] Lyell’s Principles of Geology, vol. ii., p. 164.