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‘‘ According to an Inquisition of James I., four crannoges existed in 
the Antrim district; and our learned colleague, Dr. Reeves, has just 
sent me the following notice of the one which I have now brought be- 
fore the Academy. ‘The Inquisition of 1605 states that in the Faugh- 
ne-feugh, now the Feevagh, chiefly represented bythe parish of Duneane, 
with Cranfield, now part of Drummaul (for which see Reeves’s “ Eccle- 
siastical Antiquities,” p. 843),—‘‘ Est quidam lacus vocatus Lough-di- 
reare, in quo est Insula fortificata;” this I suppose to be the seat of 
your crannoge. Some years ago I received a communication regarding 
the uprooting of an artificial island on the road from Randalstown to 
Toome, and it was described as on a lakelet in the bog, called Lough 
Ranel, in the townland of Derryhollough, which is, I believe, in Duneane 
parish.’ 
‘‘T laboured during the last eight months to procure some of the an- 
tiquities found in this crannoge, but unsuccessfully, until within the last 
few weeks, when I was given the following articles by the Rev. Mr. 
O’ Loughlin, parish priest of Antrim, in whose name I beg to present 
them to the Academy. A circular stone, 4 inches across, perforated in 
the centre, decorated at top, and not unlike the upper stone of a pot- 
quern. A small distaff or spindle whorl of red grit, 14 inches in dia- 
meter; and a water-worn pebble with a natural perforation through it, 
and which may have been used as a net-weight or sink-stone ; these are 
now numbered respectively 36, 67, and 128, in continuation of the stone 
collection already set forth in the printed Catalogue. 
«A whet-stone, 4 inches long, No. 84.—A curved smooth stone, 5 
inches long, with some rudely carved devices on it; for the present num- 
bered 30. A celt-shaped, smooth, flat stone, about 6 inches long, evi- 
dently a natural formation, and very like the modern polished stone used 
by linen weavers to give a gloss to the web, and called a ‘rubbing stone,’ 
or ‘rubbing bone,’ as sometimes a smooth horse-shank is employed for that 
purpose. Itis No. 31 in the addition of miscellaneous articles to the stone 
collection. Two fragments of exceedingly rude pottery, one of them un- 
glazed, No. 10, and the other, No. 11, showing the very earliest attempt at 
the manufacture of glazed ware which I have seen in Ireland. The first 
is a portion of a small pipkin, between 3 and 4 inches wide, and 24 high, 
with a rude indented band round the top, and bearing marks of the long- 
continued action of fire ; in composition it is very similar to our oldest 
cinerary urns, than which it is more compact in the grain, though less 
artistically formed. We have only two other vessels like it in the Aca- 
demy, No. 8, Fig. 112, and No. 9, already described in the Catalogue, and 
which latter appears to have been used as a crucible, and contained, when 
found, several broken pieces of bronze apparently about to be smelted. 
“Insignificant as these pieces of pottery may appear to some, they are 
not without their interest to the ethnological inquirer into the state of 
the fictile art in Ireland, from the ninth to the sixteenth century, the 
probable date of these crannoges; between which period and the pre- 
historic times of the sepulchral urns we have not the slightest vestige of 
pottery. Crannoges are, in fact, the only places in which the remains of 
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