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serves as a head-stone to the grave of the rebels who fell here 

 in 1798, is the so celebrated Lia Fail, or coronation stone of 

 the Irish kings, which has been generally supposed to have 

 been carried into Scotland by the Dalriadic Colony in 503, 

 and thence to have been taken by Edward the First into 

 England, where a stone alleged to be the same is, it is well 

 known, still shown under the coronation chair in West- 

 minster Abbey. 



This paper proves, in a very striking manner, the value 

 and importance of the great national work to which it be- 

 longs ; as, previously to the Survey, no accurate plan or de- 

 scription of the remarkable ruins of this remotely ancient seat 

 of the Irish monarchs had ever been attempted, nor any cri- 

 tical examination instituted with a view to the elucidation 

 of those Irish MS. records which bear upon the subject. 



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