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still remaining engraved upon it with that upon the tomb of 
O’Toole, who was buried in Glendaloch in the year 1010, an en- 
graving of which is given in Ledwich’s Antiq. plate, 18. Both 
crosses are composed of a similar number of straight and curve 
lines similarly placed. Additional testimony of its antiquity is borne 
by the chevron-like inlaying of silver in the bluish metal before de- 
scribed. If the Barnaan Cuilawn be considered as ancient as the 
year 900, it affords a good specimen of the perfection to which 
they brought the works in metal in those days, and bears much in 
favour of the then civilized state of Ireland. 
The Barnaan Cuilawn was in all likelihood hidden during some 
of the troubles, with which Ireland has been continually convulsed ; 
and, the person, who concealed it, having probably soon after met 
an untimely fate, it remained unseen, until, after some generations, 
the hand of time, having rotted away the tree in which it lay con- 
cealed, exposed to view this relic of antiquity. 
Having thus given the best account of the Barnaan Cuilawn, that 
my slender information enables me to offer, I shall now proceed 
with a description of the remains of an ancient Mill, which was 
lately dug up in the same parish, within about 150 or 200 yards of 
the ruins of Glankeen church. 
Asa peasant, of the name of Kelly, was digging some time in 
the month of February 1821, for the purpose of levelling an angle 
of his garden, situate within a short distance of the ruins of the 
church so often before mentioned, he discovered, adjoining a lit- 
tle stream, the remains of an ancient mill, buried in clay, a small 
way under the surface of the ground. He also discovered there 
several planks of oak from eight to ten feet in length and of con- 
siderable thickness, most of them being fitted with tenents and 
mortices apparently for the frame-work of the mill. 
