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No. 10. A left horn of 6 tines, and No. 11, a left horn of 7 tines, 
found in Ardakillan Lough, near Strokestown, county of Roscommon. 
No. 12. A right horn of 7 tines. No. 13. Part of cranium, and 
right horn with 6 tines. No. 14. A left horn with 7 tines. No. 16. 
Part of cranium of.a small animal. No. 16. Ashed left horn of 7 tines. 
No.17. <A left horn with 7 tines. No. 18. Part of a head and left horn, 
No. 19. A shed left horn, with 6 tines. No. 20. Fragment of a shed 
left horn. No. 21. Upper part of cranium, wanting the horns ; found in 
the river’s bank, near Ballycumber bridge, King’s County. No. 22.Upper 
part of cranium, wanting horns. No. 23. A fragment of right horn. Nos. 
24.and 25. Ditto. No. 26. The fragment of a small left horn. No. 27. 
An imperfect left horn, sawn off below the crown. No. 28. Fragment 
of aright horn. No. 29. Ditto, much worn, as if by attrition in water. 
No. 30. A right horn. No. 31. Fragment of an antler top, with 4 
tines. No. 32. A fine-shaped right horn, with 9 tines. No. 33. A left 
horn and fragment of skull. No. 34. A portion of left shed horn. No. 
35. Fragment of right horn. No. 36. Fragment of cranium, and por- 
tion of left horn. No. 37. A fragment of shed left horn, found in the 
River Shannon, at Grosse’s Island, near Carrick-on-Shannon, July, 
1847. No. 38. A small imperfect left shed horn. No. 39. Fragment 
of aright shed horn. No. 40. Fragment of small left shed horn. No. 
41. Upper fragment of left shed horn. No. 42. Upper fragment of horn, 
with 5 tines. No. 43. Ditto. All the foregoing were presented by the 
Board of PublicWorks. No. 44. Pelvis of a deer, marked “‘ No. 8,” with 
the inscription, ‘‘ Found in the river between Annagossin and Castle- 
bellingham.”” No. 45 is a small shed horn, apparently of the roebuck, 
presented by Joshua Ferguson, Esq. 
There is some difficulty in distinguishing the cranium of the goat 
from that of the horned sheep, especially in mutilated specimens, and 
therefore the remains of both animals have been arranged and registered 
together. Inthe sheep, however, as has been well remarked by Owen, 
“the greatest diameter of the horn is across the longitudinal axis of 
the head; in the goat it runs parallel with it.” 
The Goat, Gabhur, the Capra hircus, has in all probability existed in 
Treland from the earliest period of its inhabitation, and the head, 
horns, and other bones of this animal, have been found not only in 
erannoges, but in artificial caves, and in the stone passages and vaulted 
chambers in ancient raths, as well as in the clay which composes the 
ramparts of some of these moats. As the goat always gives way to the 
sheep in the progress of civilization, except in those regions which, from 
their peculiarly mountainous and rocky nature, must remain its natural 
habitat, we find this animal gradually disappearing in many localities, 
formerly celebrated for it in Ireland. It is seldom alluded to in Irish writ- 
ings of antiquity, and is not enumerated among the animals which were 
given astributes to the kings of Erinn. Among the sheep’s and goats’ heads 
discovered in our crannoges were several specimens of the four-horned 
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