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dition to the prefent times; all which proves, that the 

 Tamlachta Umhail, mentioned by Archdall as un- 

 known, muft have been the abbey, in the precinfts of 

 which this golden branch was found. A number of 

 detached pieces of antiquity are likewife in the Biftiop 

 of Dromore's pofleflion ; amongft thefe is a boat, or 

 canoe, found in a bog not far from the fee-houfe of 

 Dromore ; this canoe is of an oak tree, the length 

 about thirteen feet, the breadth in the middle near 

 three feet, with a ledge around, of the fame plank, 

 which ferves as a gunwale. His Lordfhip has alfo two 

 (tone hatchets, fuch as were ufed before metals were 

 found out; likewife feveral heads of fpears of brafs, 

 of different fizes and forms. 



Urns of various kinds have been found, feme of 

 them neatly worked and ornamented, others of ruder 

 formation. Two of the former kind, found in the 

 .parifh of Garvaghy about two years ago, are thus de 

 fcribed by the Rev. Thomas Beatty, who faw them j 

 they were difcovered on removing the Hones of a cairn 

 in the townland of Balliely : " Thefe urns were made 

 of a yellowifti clay, handfomely finifhed, and orna- 

 mented with feftoons wrought in the clay around the 

 centre ; they were in a perfect ftate of prefervation, 

 one about twelve inches in diameter, and the other 

 about half that fize ; they were each nearly half full 

 of the afhes of the dead ; they were found placed on 

 fmooth flags, defended on all fides by perpendicular 

 R r ftones. 



