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that at Cloonfinlough. Near the former, Ardekillan, was found a 

 boat forty feet in length, and four feet across the bow hollowed 

 out of a single oak ! and in which were a skull, abronzepin, and 

 a spear, which, by the liberality of Mr. R. Kelly, I am permit- 

 ted to present to the Academy. The skull is perforated in the 

 forehead, and has the mark of no less than twenty sword-cuts 

 on it, showing the murderous conflict in which its owner must 

 have been engaged ; and near to it were found a neck-piece of 

 iron, and twenty feet of rude chain attached, that would do 

 credit to the dungeons of Naples, and by which its unhappy 

 victim was made fast. These, which I believe are perfectly 

 unique, Mr. R. Kelly has also permitted me to present to the 

 Museum ; and they certainly do not afford any very exagge- 

 rated idea of the humanity of our Milesian ancestors. 



" In conclusion, I would venture to suggest to the Aca- 

 demy to have the other stockaded islands systematically exa- 

 mined in the ensuing summer, and by parties capable of doing 

 far more justice to the subject than so unexperienced an anti- 

 quarian as the author of the present paper." 



Robert Ball, LL.D., remarked that the discovery of bones 

 of the Irish elk, in the locality described by Mr. Kelly, was 

 not conclusive evidence that the other bones and the anti- 

 quities found with them were contemporary with the period 

 of that animal in Ireland. 



George Petrie, LL.D., made some remarks on ancient 

 crannog islands, and on the iron articles discovered in those 

 at Dunshaughlin and Cloonfree. 



The Earl of Enniskillen made some remarks in relation to 

 crannog islands, and read the following memorandum, which 

 had been given to him by the Rev. William Smyth Burnside, 

 with certain antiquities described therein, which he presented 



