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An ACCOUNT of .an ANCIENT SEPULCHRE Iifcovered in 

 the COUNTY 0/ KILDARE, IRELAND, in the Tear 1788. 

 ify WILLIAM BEAUFORD, A. B. In a Letter to JOSEPH 

 C. WALKER, Kfq; Secretary to the Committee of Antiquities, 



SIR, 



XxS fome peafants in February, 1788, were digging in a garden Read March 

 at Calverfton near Kilcullen, in the county of Kildare, one of them 

 dropped his fack or fpade in a hole vuider what was always deemed 

 a large rock-ftone, which jull appeared above the ground. To 

 recover the fpade they attempted to remove the ftone ; this they 

 completed by breaking it into feveral pieces. Underneath was an 

 oblong cavity or tomb, the fides and ends compofed of large flat 

 ftones, about five feet long, four deep and four wide. In this 

 tomb was fovind a Jlkeleton in a fitting attitude, facing the fouth, 



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